{"id":480262,"date":"2022-08-01T19:57:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nasa-needs-your-help-identifying-martian-clouds-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T19:57:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:57:16","slug":"nasa-needs-your-help-identifying-martian-clouds-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasa-needs-your-help-identifying-martian-clouds-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASA Needs Your Help Identifying Martian Clouds \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36cdf121768\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36cdf121768\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasa-needs-your-help-identifying-martian-clouds-review-geek\/#%E2%80%9CNASA_Needs_Your_Help_Identifying_Martian_Clouds_%E2%80%93_Review_Geek%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;NASA Needs Your Help Identifying Martian Clouds \u2013 Review Geek&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNASA_Needs_Your_Help_Identifying_Martian_Clouds_%E2%80%93_Review_Geek%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;NASA Needs Your Help Identifying Martian Clouds \u2013 Review Geek&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"article-content-area\">\n<figure style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage wp-image-124566 size-full\" data-pagespeed-no-defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/p\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0481527b.png?width=1200\" alt=\"A mesospheric cloud seen from the ground by NASA's Curiosity rover.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-crediturl=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/marek-slipski\/cloudspotting-on-mars\/about\/research\" data-credittext=\"NASA\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mesospheric cloud seen from the ground by NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover. <span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/marek-slipski\/cloudspotting-on-mars\/about\/research\">NASA<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Planetary scientists have their heads in the clouds. And I mean that in a good way\u2014scientists are identifying Martian clouds to better understand the Red Planet\u2019s atmosphere. But with over 15 years of data to sort through, NASA needs some help from volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>As explained by scientist\u00a0Marek Slipski (via\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nasa-is-crowdsourcing-cloud-research-on-mars\/\"><em>Wired<\/em><\/a>), the Martian atmosphere is surprisingly cloudy. Some of the planet\u2019s clouds are full of icy-cold H2O, while others contain even colder CO2 (dry ice). Studying these clouds could teach us more about weather patterns and seasons on Mars, or even explain the absence of water from the Martian surface.<\/p>\n<p>An instrument called the\u00a0Mars Climate Sounder (MCS) has collected atmospheric data on Mars since 2007. But this raw data is a little too complicated for algorithms, which is why NASA scientists have opened a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/marek-slipski\/cloudspotting-on-mars\">Cloudspotting on Mars<\/a> campaign. Essentially, volunteers will look at visual representations of Martian data to identify mesospheric clouds.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124567 size-full\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/p\/uploads\/2022\/08\/93f9caa7.png\" alt=\"A heat map used to identify clouds on Mars.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"976\" data-crediturl=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/marek-slipski\/cloudspotting-on-mars\/talk\/subjects\/78519255\" data-credittext=\"NASA\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A heat map used to identify clouds on Mars. The faint arc on the left is a cloud. <span class=\"imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/marek-slipski\/cloudspotting-on-mars\/talk\/subjects\/78519255\">NASA<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This visualized data isn\u2019t for the faint of heart\u2014it\u2019s a bunch of white splotches on a black background. Large arcs of blue or white indicate a possible cloud, and NASA wants volunteers to highlight these arcs by hand.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s about four months of data in the Cloudspotting on Mars project. Volunteers will look at four photos for every dataset, each with varying contrast and color to help any clouds stand out. And to curb human error, each dataset needs to be verified by 20 volunteers before it\u2019s accepted by NASA.<\/p>\n<p>Once NASA has a bunch of crowdsourced data, it will try to build an algorithm that automatically identifies clouds in these datasets. Going the whole way by hand would take decades, according to\u00a0Marek Slipski.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to help NASA find Martian clouds, go sign up for the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/marek-slipski\/cloudspotting-on-mars\">Cloudspotting on Mars<\/a> project. It\u2019s hosted on Zooniverse, a platform dedicated to crowdsourced projects.<\/p>\n<p><small>Source: NASA via <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nasa-is-crowdsourcing-cloud-research-on-mars\/\">Wired<\/a><\/small>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\nsetTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '1137093656460433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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