Want to become an astronaut, or at least a moment to feel the magic of the future job astronaut on the moon? Modern technology allows you to present all you need is a computer, internet connection and a little bit of time.
The interface of virtual astronauts on the Moon
For years, research projects in its components must have the required educational and corpus activity (yes, of course this is not true in our country). The American Lunar and Planetary Institute is a sizable part of the team that was formed and started a new project, "Science and citizens" called Moon Zoo.
Dr. Katherine Joy explains that it is a virtual project in which students are free to participate, students, citizens ... in fact all those who want to try to help science and scientists in the study of our natural satellite - moon. Questions of origin and evolution of these events on it over time are now available for the new discovery each of us!
Moon Zoo has bases photographs incurred during sixties and seventies during the preparation of landing a man on the moon and themselves during the Apollo missions. They are combined with photographs taken over the last few years or months with the American Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European SMART. In over 70,000 photos that are available in the Moon Zoo a newly astronauts can see the moon with a resolution of detail, even less than 50cm! From virtual astronauts are expected to categorize the craters, cracks and other surface features on the moon with the possibility of simultaneous comparison of selected surface of the moon on old recordings. With a little luck it is possible to note a new, small geological formations on it. It is possible that it is your virtual business-astronaut scientists to assist in understanding the events on the moon. How frequent are the meteoroids hit the Moon, it seems the mechanism of impact and how it behaves lunar surface in such cases, we expect a surprise lunar geology ..?
These are just some of the questions that you just can not help to answer.
Photos of the Moon we all saw, but as the moon looks really close - it's just part of the excitement that await you if you start work on the Moon Zoo project. The www.moonzoo.org expect you instructions and explanations as to the work. Everything is very easy to understand and the only thing you have to really watch the contagiousness of applications, so you would not like what happened to the author of this text; Do not forget to come down from the moon!
Marino Tumpić