A great opportunity for those who are interested to contribute to NASA’s exploration of Mars. You can help @nasa scientists find clouds on Mars!
NASA is asking citizen scientists to help us identify clouds in data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (#MRO). The extra data analysis may aid researchers in figuring out why the #RedPlanet’s atmosphere is just 1% as dense as Earth’s even though ample evidence suggests Mars used to have a much thicker #atmosphere.
The project, dubbed Cloud spotting on Mars, revolves around a 16-year #data record from #MRO, which has studied the planet since 2006. The spacecraft’s Mars Climate Sounder instrument studies the atmosphere in #infrared light that’s invisible to the human eye. In measurements taken by the instrument as MRO orbits around Mars, clouds appear as arches. The team needs help sifting through that data on Zooniverse, marking the arches so that #scientists can more efficiently study where in the atmosphere they happen.
If you’d like to join in, head to the link in my bio for more information. go.nasa.gov/3Nt9dMQ
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Help @nasa scientists find clouds on Mars!
We're asking citizen scientists to help us identify clouds in data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (#MRO). The extra data analysis may aid researchers in figuring out why the #RedPlanet's atmosphere is just 1% as dense as Earth's even though ample evidence suggests #Mars used to have a much thicker #atmosphere.
The project, dubbed #Cloudspotting on Mars, revolves around a 16-year #data record from #MRO, which has studied the planet since 2006. The spacecraft's Mars Climate Sounder instrument studies the atmosphere in #infrared light that's invisible to the human eye. In measurements taken by the instrument as MRO orbits around Mars, clouds appear as arches. The team needs help sifting through that data on Zooniverse, marking the arches so that #scientists can more efficiently study where in the atmosphere they happen.
If you'd like to join in, head to the link in bio for more information. go.nasa.gov/3Nt9dMQ
Credit: NASA/JPL.
#mars#JPL#NASA#marsreconnaissanceorbiter#solarsystem#martian#perseverancerover
Help @nasa scientists find clouds on Mars!
We’re asking citizen scientists to help us identify clouds in data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (#MRO). The extra data analysis may aid researchers in figuring out why the #RedPlanet’s atmosphere is just 1% as dense as Earth’s even though ample evidence suggests #Mars used to have a much thicker #atmosphere.
The project, dubbed #Cloudspotting on Mars, revolves around a 16-year #data record from #MRO, which has studied the planet since 2006. The spacecraft’s Mars Climate Sounder instrument studies the atmosphere in #infrared light that’s invisible to the human eye. In measurements taken by the instrument as MRO orbits around Mars, clouds appear as arches. The team needs help sifting through that data on Zooniverse, marking the arches so that #scientists can more efficiently study where in the atmosphere they happen.
If you’d like to join in, head to the link in bio for more information. go.nasa.gov/3Nt9dMQ
#science#SolarSystem#NASA#JPL
Big news! 📢 AASG & we are announcing $74.6 million to be distributed in 30 states to invest in geoscience data collection, mapping, data preservation & scientific interpretation of areas with potential for critical minerals: http://ow.ly/VxVR50JCXZa (link also in profile).
Funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will account for $64 million in this effort. This is part of the broader $510.7 million investment in USGS from the Law to support scientific innovation.
These investments will be managed by our Earth Mapping Resource Initiative, or Earth MRI, under which we've partnered with the Association of American State Geologists and state geological surveys to jointly fund and conduct new geologic mapping and geochemical reconnaissance sampling and preserve existing geologic data and samples.
As we conduct these surveys and analyze the data, we'll share them here and on our website, so keep an eye out!
Image shows a USGS scientist walking along an old exploration trench in Alaska.
Image credit: Susan Karl, USGS
#USGS#Science#CriticalMinerals#Data#Infrastructure#Geology#Minerals#Mapping
We have some good news during Oceans Month: we have partnered with NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information & U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System to make sure that ocean data submitted to the US node of the Ocean Biodiversity Information System will be preserved & accessible for decades to come: http://ow.ly/gI3I50JzkXv (link also in profile)
The Ocean Biodiversity Information System is one way that marine biodiversity information is being shared in web-accessible ways. OBIS, created as part of the 80-nation Census of Marine Life, is an international network of data providers and data managers that have been integrating and sharing key information on marine species for over 20 years.
Image shows a healthy coral reef in the Tumon Bay Marine Preserve off Tumon, Guam, showing a number of different species of fish swimming over a high coral cover reef composed of a number of hard and soft coral species.
Image Credit: Curt Storlazzi, USGS
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