{"id":1039,"date":"2013-03-09T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2013-03-09T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T19:48:14","slug":"looking-in-on-some-citizen-science-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"Looking in on some Citizen Science projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Checking the blogs at some citizen science projects:<\/p>\n<p>* <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonzoo.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Moon Zoo<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A review of the goals of the project: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.moonzoo.org\/2013\/03\/04\/moon-zoo-science-goals\/\" target=\"_d\">Moon Zoo Science Goals &#8211; Moon Zoo &#8211; March.4.13<\/a><\/li>\n<li>This older post has an interesting discussion of how strings of craters can be created: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.moonzoo.org\/2010\/08\/30\/crater-chains\/\" target=\"_d\">Crater Chains &#8211; Moon Zoo &#8211; Aug.30.10\u00a0 <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/s3d_s171.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1040\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=1040\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/s3d_s171.gif\" data-orig-size=\"481,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"s3d_s17[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/s3d_s171.gif\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1040\" alt=\"s3d_s17[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/s3d_s171.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planethunters.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet Hunters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A video on the development of online community type projects: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planethunters.org\/2013\/03\/02\/planet-hunters-an-online-community\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet Hunters: An Online Community &#8211; Planet Hunters &#8211; March.2.13 <\/a><\/li>\n<li>An answer to the question of whether sunspots can produce simliar affect as the transit of a planet across the face of a star: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planethunters.org\/2013\/02\/11\/starspots-and-transits\/\" target=\"_d\">Starspots and Transits &#8211; Planet Hunters &#8211; Feb.11.13<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galaxyzoo.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Galaxy Zoo<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The latest Galaxy Zoo hangout dealt with the <a title=\"The H-R Diagram: Learn It. Love It. It's Awesome.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hertzsprung%E2%80%93Russell_diagram\" target=\"_blank\">Hertzsprung-Russell<\/a> plot, the <a title=\"Yes, I'm doing the linking to Wikipedia thing. Want something better? Check the link in the acronym.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Initial_mass_function\" target=\"_blank\">Initial Mass Function<\/a> (<a title=\"Salpeter 1955: the first IMF.\" href=\"http:\/\/labs.adsabs.harvard.edu\/ui\/abs\/1955ApJ...121..161S\" target=\"_blank\">IMF<\/a>), and called <a title=\"A site describing SPS at a reasonably high level.\" href=\"http:\/\/rialto.ll.iac.es\/proyecto\/traces\/research\/stellar-population-synthesis-models\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stellar Population Synthesis<\/a> (<a title=\"A Master's thesis on SPS.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.ku.dk\/%7Emilvang\/Master\/more\/thesis\/node19.html\" target=\"_blank\">SPS<\/a>): <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.galaxyzoo.org\/2013\/03\/08\/jargon-alert-your-imf-just-messed-with-my-sps\/\" target=\"_d\">Jargon Alert: Your IMF Just Messed With My SPS! &#8211; Galaxy Zoo &#8211; Mar.8.13<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ndFpgppG1Nw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/planetfour.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet Four<\/a><\/strong> :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A discussion of the color filtering used with the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and how it creates images different that you would see in person: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planetfour.org\/2013\/03\/05\/lets-talk-about-color\/\" target=\"_d\">Let\u2019s talk about color &#8211; Planet Four Blog &#8211; March.5.13<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A description of Martian days and years: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planetfour.org\/2013\/02\/11\/martian-timekeeping\/\" target=\"_d\">Martian Timekeeping &#8211; Planet Four Blog &#8211; Feb.11.13 <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checking the blogs at some citizen science projects: * Moon Zoo: A review of the goals of the project: Moon Zoo Science Goals &#8211; Moon Zoo &#8211; March.4.13 This older post has an interesting discussion of how strings of craters can be created: Crater Chains &#8211; Moon Zoo &#8211; Aug.30.10\u00a0 * Planet Hunters A video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1039\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looking in on some Citizen Science projects<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-participation","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-gL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2177,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2177","url_meta":{"origin":1039,"position":0},"title":"Looking in on the Zooniverse citizen science space projects","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A scan of of what's happening with the space related citizen science projects at Zooniverse: Galaxy Zoo - To understand how galaxies formed participants help to classify them according to their shapes. 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