Snapshots from Space: Citizen Participation in Space Missions Through Image Processing

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Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmed13b..07l&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #ED13B-07

Physics

[6200] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects, [6297] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Instruments And Techniques

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For six years, members of the public have been able to ride along with the rovers and cruise with Cassini on their daily journeys across Mars and through the Saturn system by browsing the daily downlinks of raw images posted to the missions' websites. An international community of amateur image processors has grown up around these image libraries, people who not only browse and discuss the photos but also process them into color versions, mosaics, and animations. Until recently, only a few of these amateurs have been able to push beyond the raw image websites -- which post reduced-quality versions of the images, unsuitable for science -- into the actual archived science data at the Planetary Data System. However, recent upgrades to search tools at the various Planetary Data System Nodes have largely removed the barriers (such as arcane file formats) that previously prevented members of the public from understanding how to access science data. Now increasing number of citizen scientists are making discoveries in these image data, while creating beautiful images that display space destinations as a human observer would see them.

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