Citizen Science in the Classroom: Mapping Mars and Be a Martian with NASA [GUEST POST] - CitizenSci

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-09-15

Summary:

"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is asking for help in processing data collected on Mars, in the form of pictures taken by the Mars Rovers, Spirit and Curiosity. On the 'Be a Martian' home page there is a dashboard where teachers or students may create an account with a Martian profile, complete with choosing your alien. Each action, associated with a profile, is given points or virtual badges for participating. Creating a profile is not necessary, you may also participate as a 'Martian tourist.'  After registering (or not) you will be taken to their Citizenship Hall, which has links for pages with polling, a 'theater' with video clips about the rovers, the ability to create a post card to send to the rover Spirit, and an Atlas with geographic information about Mars. Accessed from the Citizenship Hall is the, the second major page of their website, the 'Map Room.'  In the map room there is an introductory video about the program and students have the opportunity to try their hands at three types of Martian mapping. These include aligning photos to match topographic images, counting craters, and tagging physical features of the landscape."

Link:

http://blogs.plos.org/citizensci/2014/09/13/citizen-science-classrom-mapping-mars-martian-nasa/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.nasa oa.crowd oa.education oa.students

Date tagged:

09/15/2014, 08:42

Date published:

09/15/2014, 04:42