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NASA needs your help identifying the clouds on Mars

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NASA needs your help identifying the clouds on Mars


By TechThop Team

Posted on: 02 Aug, 2022

There is a lot of head scratching going on among the planetary scientists today. The good news is that scientists are identifying Mars' clouds to gain a better understanding of the Red Planet's atmosphere, and I mean that in a good way.

It has been revealed by a scientist named Marek Slipski (via Wired) that the Martian atmosphere is surprisingly cloudy. In some of the planet's clouds, H2O can be found in icy cold temperatures, while CO2 (dry ice) can be found in even colder temperatures.

The study of these clouds could provide us with a better understanding of the weather patterns and seasons on Mars, or even shed light on why there is no water on the surface of Mars.

There has been an instrument called the Mars Climate Sounder (MCS) that has collected atmospheric data on Mars since 2007. This raw data is indeed a little too complex for algorithms.

This is why NASA scientists have launched the Cloudspotting on Mars campaign to get a better understanding of it. The goal of the project is for volunteers to identify mesospheric clouds by looking at visual representations of Martian data.

A bunch of white splotches on a black background is what this visualized data looks like, so it won't appeal to the faint-hearted. NASA is asking volunteers to highlight large arcs of blue or white that are indicative of possible clouds using their hands.

As of now, there are about four months of data available in the project Cloudspotting on Mars. The volunteers will review four different photos for every dataset, each with varying contrast and color to help them identify any clouds that may be present.

In the future, NASA will try to develop an algorithm that will automatically identify clouds in these crowdsourced datasets once it has a lot of crowdsourced data. The whole process of going by hand would take decades, according to Marek Slipski, if we were to do it that way.

It is possible to help NASA find Martian clouds if you sign up for the Cloudspotting on Mars project if you are interested in helping. On Zooniverse, a platform dedicated to crowdsourced projects, the project is hosted as part of a crowdsourcing community.

source: review geek

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