In this series of posts, we’ll be breaking down the first MoonMappers paper by Robbins et al. showcasing YOUR work. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 We’ve shown in this series of posts why counting craters is important, how it’s been done throughout the years, what the experts and volunteers had to say, […]
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#TBT Processing Images for Moon Mappers
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 […]
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 […]
So Easy, a Five-Year-Old Can Do It!
You never know what will grab a child’s attention and capture their imagination. When I was little, I remember being fascinated by a jar of bread clips in my grandmother’s kitchen. Every time we’d visit her I’d reach up to that high kitchen shelf, grab that jar and dump the clips all over the floor. […]
Million Crater Challenge
Yes, that’s right, one million. (or 1,000,000 or 10^6 if you want to be cool about it) When CosmoQuest went live with Moon Mappers nearly a year ago, a goal was set to map one million craters and we’re almost there! As a fun way to show the progress of the goal, the graphic on […]
Faces on the brain
The human brain is an amazing machine. It takes in vast amounts of data – sight, sound, smell, and more – crunches through it, and within a fraction of a second makes enough sense of it that we don’t (usually) wind up walking off a cliff or tasting colors. But it evolved haphazardly over millions […]
What MoonMappers Hopes to Present in Three Weeks
We are having a broad, open request right now for people, new and established, to come visit the MoonMappers section of our site and help us to find craters. Why? We’re gearing up to present at the NASA Lunar Science Forums conference to be held at NASA Ames research center in California. The conference starts […]