Astro Zoo: Citizen Science and Crowd Sourced Astronomy
~by Matthew West
Zoo Universe
• https://www.zooniverse.org/projects
• Clearing house of various citizen science projects
• Hubble, Kepler, Spitzer, and more
• Moon, Mars, Asteroids, Solar Storms, Sun Spots, Transits, Planetary Disks, Jets
Galaxy Zoo
http://www.galaxyzoo.org
Classify Galaxies according to their shapes.
Assist astronomers to understand how the galaxies we see around us formed, and what theirstories reveal about the past, present and future of the Universe.
Images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
Radio Galaxy Zoo
• http://radio.galaxyzoo.org
• Search for Erupting Black Holes!
• Find jets and match them to the host galaxy.
• Discover supermassive black holes observed by:
• KG Jansky Very Large Array (NRAO)
• Australia Telescope Compact Array (CSIRO)
Moon Zoo
• http://www.moonzoo.org
• Identify craters and create maps, find boulders
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
• Great video tutorials and tools
Planet Hunters
• http://www.planethunters.org
• Find planets around other stars
• Kepler light curve data
Agent Exoplanet
• http://lcogt.net/agentexoplanet/
• Study images of known exoplanets
• Measure the brightness of stars as exoplanets transit
Cosmo Quest
• http://cosmoquest.org/projects/moon_mappers/
• http://cosmoquest.org/projects/mercury_mappers/
• http://cosmoquest.org/projects/vesta_mappers/
• Map previously unidentified craters
• LRO, Messenger, Dawn
Asteroid Mission
http://www.asteroidmission.org/?q=target_asteroids
Submit your amateur astronomer telescope images of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) andmeasurements of brightness and positions.
Physical properties, refine their orbits, and determine their parent asteroid families.
Stardust at Home
• http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
• Particles from the Stardust spacecraft’s sample return capsule.
• Comet Wild 2 particles, Interstellar dust particles.
NASA and JPL
• http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov
• http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/index.shtml
• http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/tools/default.htm
• Planetary Data System (PDS), all data from all NASA/JPL missions. • Make maps, perform analyses, verify results from published papers!
Saturn
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/
Cassini: RAW, Calibrated, Processed Make your own movies or maps
Mars
• http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=2#/?slide=0
• http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/
• http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/spirit.html
• http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/opportunity.html
• http://marsed.mars.asu.edu/mesdt-home
• Curiosity, Spirit & Opportunity, Orbiters
Venus
• http://ode.rsl.wustl.edu/Venus/indexMapSearch.aspx
• http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/magellan/gxdr/
• http://history.nasa.gov/JPL-93-24/ch2.htm
• Magellan datasets: Elevation, Slope, Emissivity, Reflectivity
• Also available from the PDS: Pioneer, Venus Express, Cassini, Mariner, Messenger ….
The Sky Net
• http://www.theskynet.org
• Distributed processing of radio astronomy data.
• Utilize spare processing power when your computer is not in use.
SETI
• http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
• Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
• Utilize spare processing power when your computer is not in use.
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