{"id":2177,"date":"2013-05-08T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2013-05-09T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:59:28","slug":"looking-in-on-the-zooniverse-citizen-science-space-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2177","title":{"rendered":"Looking in on the Zooniverse citizen science space projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scan of of what&#8217;s happening with the space related citizen science projects at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\" target=\"_blank\">Zooniverse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galaxyzoo.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Galaxy Zoo<\/a> &#8211; To understand how galaxies formed participants help to classify them according to their shapes.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.galaxyzoo.org\/2013\/05\/06\/next-gz-hangout-thursday-may-9th-1500-gmt-with-special-guests\/\" target=\"_d\">Next GZ Hangout: Thursday, May 9th, 15:00 GMT \u2013 with special guests! &#8211; Galaxy Zoo<\/a> &#8211; there is a regular <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100522748047497831850\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Google hangout<\/a> where participants can hear about and discuss the project.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.galaxyzoo.org\/2013\/05\/02\/how-to-translate-galaxy-zoo\/\" target=\"_d\">How to Translate Galaxy Zoo | Galaxy Zoo<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;now possible for <strong>anyone<\/strong> to translate the Galaxy Zoo website into their own language&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milkywayproject.org\/\" target=\"_d\">The Milky Way Project<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0 Look for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milkywayproject.org\/needyou\" target=\"_blank\">bubbles<\/a> and other unusual features in the Milky Way\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/talk.milkywayproject.org\/\" target=\"_d\">The Milky Way Project | Talk<\/a> &#8211; participants discuss latest objects of interest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonzoo.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Moon Zoo<\/a> &#8211; classification of features on the lunar surface\n<ul>\n<li>3,553,346 images classified to date by 20,627 users<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.moonzoo.org\/2013\/05\/06\/thank-you-moon-zoo\/\" target=\"_d\">Thank you Moon Zoo! &#8211; Moon Zoo<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0 &#8220;to date, around 8.5 million craters in total have been marked by MoonZoo citizen scientists , with around 670,000 (~8%) relating to the [Apollo 17] region&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/planetfour.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet Four<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; examination of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to identify and measure features on the surface of Mars\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><strong>70,670<\/strong> participants worldwide, <strong>3,772,479<\/strong> MRO images classified<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planetfour.org\/2013\/04\/29\/brand-new-images-year-1-data\/\" target=\"_d\">Brand New Images \u2013 Year 1 Data &#8211;\u00a0 Planet Four Blog<\/a> &#8211; more MRO images added.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planethunters.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet Hunters<\/a> &#8211; look for exoplanets in Kepler space observatory data\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/talk.planethunters.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet Hunters | Talk<\/a> &#8211; discussions of latest candidate signals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spacewarps.org\/\" target=\"_d\">SpaceWarps<\/a> &#8211; look for gravitational lenses (see <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2174\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> May.9.13: Here is a report by Katy Maloney about a recent Zooniverse workshop held n Chicago at the Adler Planetarium :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planethunters.org\/2013\/05\/04\/2nd-zooniverse-project-workshop\/\" target=\"_d\">2nd Zooniverse Project Workshop &#8211; Planet Hunters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planethunters.org\/2013\/05\/09\/2nd-zooniverse-project-workshop-part-2\/\" target=\"_d\">2nd Zooniverse Project Workshop Part 2 &#8211; Planet Hunters<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scan of of what&#8217;s happening with the space related citizen science projects at Zooniverse: Galaxy Zoo &#8211; To understand how galaxies formed participants help to classify them according to their shapes. Next GZ Hangout: Thursday, May 9th, 15:00 GMT \u2013 with special guests! &#8211; Galaxy Zoo &#8211; there is a regular Google hangout where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looking in on the Zooniverse citizen science space 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":[3,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-astronomy","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-z7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10042,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10042","url_meta":{"origin":2177,"position":0},"title":"Galaxy Zoo citizen scientists match experts in ID of radio sources &#038; host galaxies","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A\u00a0paper reporting on research carried out with the help of\u00a0more than\u00a04900 participants in the citizen science project\u00a0Radio Galaxy Zoo, a member\u00a0of the\u00a0Zooniverse\u00a0array\u00a0of citizen science\u00a0projects, has been\u00a0submitted to\u00a0a scientific journal:\u00a0First Radio Galaxy Zoo paper has been submitted! -\u00a0Galaxy Zoo. 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