From Green Peas to STEVE: Citizen Science Engagement in Space Science

Fortson, L.

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“… 2020 ), upon arrival there will be extensive characterization activities needed. One possibility is to engage “citizen scientists” in characterizing craters (and possibly other surface features) in images of the surface, as has been done for other planetary bodies (e.g., NASA Citizen Science projects listed at https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience , such as Planet Hunters TESS and Disk Detective, projects listed on the Planetary Science Institute’s CosmoQuest site https://cosmoquest.org/x/ and on Zooniverse https://www.zooniverse.org/ ; see also Fortson 2021 ). During the 2020-2021 academic year, an interdisciplinary team of ASU capstone students from computer science and engineering management, along with an astronomy and planetary science undergraduate from Northern Arizona University, investigated new automated crater identification techniques as a first step to planning for potential hybrid (computer/human) crater and surface characterization citizen science activities related to Psyche.…”

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Mission to Psyche: Including Undergraduates and the Public on the Journey to a Metal World

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The NASA Psyche mission’s program to engage university undergraduates and the public in the mission is inspired by and built upon the extensive foundation of public engagement, educational outreach activities, and expertise of NASA and mission partner institutions. The program leverages the enthusiasm and contributions of undergraduates nationwide to the benefit of the mission, the students and their institutions and communities, and the broader public. Psyche Student Collaborations consists of four main programs, two (Psyche Capstone and Psyche Inspired) are available solely to undergraduates enrolled at universities or community colleges in the United States and its territories and two (Innovation Toolkit free online courses and Science Outreach Interns and Docents) invite broader participation by engaging the talents and creativity of undergraduate interns to help create content and events to reach the public and lifelong learners. Together, these offerings provide multiple entry points and a spectrum of intensity of experiences, numbers of participants, disciplinary diversity, and mode of delivery. Involving undergraduates in all phases of the program supports the development of the next generation of explorers, contributes to the nation’s workforce preparation, and complements NASA’s existing undergraduate offerings by providing long-term opportunities for students to participate with the mission through established postsecondary education structures like capstone courses.

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Mission to Psyche: Including Undergraduates and the Public on the Journey to a Metal World

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Jovian Vortex Hunter: A Citizen Science Project to Study Jupiter’s Vortices

Sankar,

Brueshaber,

Fortson

et al. 2024

Planet. Sci. J.

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The Jovian atmosphere contains a wide diversity of vortices, which have a large range of sizes, colors, and forms in different dynamical regimes. The formation processes for these vortices are poorly understood, and aside from a few known, long-lived ovals, such as the Great Red Spot and Oval BA, vortex stability and their temporal evolution are currently largely unknown. In this study, we use JunoCam data and a citizen science project on Zooniverse to derive a catalog of vortices, some with repeated observations, from 2018 May to 2021 September, and we analyze their associated properties, such as size, location, and color. We find that different-colored vortices (binned as white, red, brown, and dark) follow vastly different distributions in terms of their sizes and where they are found on the planet. We employ a simplified stability criterion using these vortices as a proxy, to derive a minimum Rossby deformation length for the planet of ∼1800 km. We find that this value of L d is largely constant throughout the atmosphere and does not have an appreciable meridional gradient.

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From Green Peas to STEVE: Citizen Science Engagement in Space Science

Cited by 2 publications

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Mission to Psyche: Including Undergraduates and the Public on the Journey to a Metal World

Mission to Psyche: Including Undergraduates and the Public on the Journey to a Metal World

Jovian Vortex Hunter: A Citizen Science Project to Study Jupiter’s Vortices

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