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Sunday, March 16, 2014

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


Lunar crater counting shows crowdsourcing is accurate tool

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 01:45 PM PDT

A new study showed that as a group, volunteer counters who examined a particular patch of lunar real estate using NASA images did just as well in identifying individual craters as professional crater counters with five to 50 years of experience. The crater-counting effort was initiated by CosmoQuest, a citizen science Web project that contributes real science to NASA space missions through the use of volunteers. In addition to analyzing high-resolution photos of the moon, the volunteers are helping planetary scientists tally craters on Mercury and the asteroid Vesta.

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