Welcome to ThrowBack Thursday! Every week we’d like to highlight a blog post from the early days of CosmoQuest. Now, 2012 wasn’t that long ago, but we’ve grown quite a bit since the early days, and we’d like to make sure that everyone gets a chance to read some of the great introductory material that was […]
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Your Science Results Explained, Part 3
In this series of posts, we’ll be breaking down the recent MoonMappers paper by Robbins et al. showcasing YOUR work. Read Part 1 and Part 2 Won’t The Real Crater Count Please Stand Up? Now that we’ve set up why we’re counting and measuring craters and reviewed the history of the methods of crater counting, let’s […]
Your Science Results Explained, Pt 2
In this series of posts, we’ll be breaking down the recent MoonMappers paper by Robbins et al. showcasing YOUR work. Read Part 1 In the first part of this series, I gave you a background overview on why accurate crater counts on surfaces like the Moon and Mercury are important. Now I’m gong to dive […]
Your Science Results Explained
In this series of posts, we’ll be breaking down the recent MoonMappers paper by Robbins et al. showcasing YOUR work. We were super-excited as the paper worked on by this team using your contributions was accepted by the journal Icarus. We put out a press release, as did CU Boulder, and Stuart made two great […]
Moon Mappers Presented Data at the 2013 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
This post was originally written by IreneAnt and edited and posted by Astrostu. This past week the Moon Mappers science co-leads, Stuart and Irene, have been in Houston, TX (USA) attending the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. This is an annual conference where planetary scientists congregate and present their most recent and exciting findings. On […]
Update on MoonMappers Science Projects
Over the past weekend, CosmoQuest hit 1 million craters marked across all science interfaces, and I wrote a post about some of the basic stats about you, our volunteers. MoonMappers itself is at about 910,000 craters as I write this (the balance being done in the AsteroidMappers task). So with stats now out of the […]
A Million Craters Marked, Some Basic Stats
Last night (at least last night in the US), we passed through our first million craters that have been marked through CosmoQuest, the vast majority of them were through MoonMappers project. I’m preparing a more science-oriented post to give everyone a status update, but it may take a few days to get it all prepped […]