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Faces on the brain

The human brain is an amazing machine. It takes in vast amounts of data – sight, sound, smell, and more – crunches through it, and within a fraction of a second makes enough sense of it that we don’t...

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Million Crater Challenge

Yes, that’s right, one million. (or 1,000,000 or 10^6 if you want to be cool about it) When CosmoQuest went live with Moon Mappers nearly a year ago, a goal was set to map one million craters and...

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So Easy, a Five-Year-Old Can Do It!

Bread clips... hours of fun! You never know what will grab a child’s attention and capture their imagination. When I was little, I remember being fascinated by a jar of bread clips in my grandmother’s...

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Moon Mappers Presented Data at the 2013 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

This post was originally written by IreneAnt and edited and posted by Astrostu. This past week the Moon Mappers science co-leads, Stuart and Irene, have been in Houston, TX (USA) attending the Lunar...

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#TBT Processing Images for Moon Mappers

Welcome to ThrowBack Thursday! Every week we’d like to highlight a blog post from the early days of CosmoQuest. Now, 2012 wasn’t that long ago, but we’ve grown quite a bit since the early days, and...

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Your Science Results Explained, Part 5

In this series of posts, we’ll be breaking down the first MoonMappers paper by Robbins et al. showcasing YOUR work.  Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 We’ve shown in this series of posts why...

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Sharing CosmoQuest Research Science at the 2017 Lunar and Planetary Science...

At LPSC, impact crater researcher Dr. Jennifer Grier of the Planetary Science Institute shares CosmoQuest science with asteroid researcher Dr. Andrew Rivkin of the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory. This...

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CQ Science – Post 8: Angle of Illumination and Seeing the Lay of the Land

As you know from having searched for impact craters on images here at CosmoQuest, some craters are are easier to spot and measure than others. One of the things that makes a crater easier to identify...

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Come see CosmoQuest at NSTA in Atlanta this week!

Are you going to the National Science Teachers Association National Conference in Atlanta this week, March 15–18, 2018? CosmoQuest will be there! Please join us for one of our workshops listed below...

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CosmoQuest Shares Citizen Science at NSTA

This is a guest blog post from Larry Lebofsky and Theresa Summer. The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) had its National Conference in Atlanta this year from March 15–18, 2018. Founded in...

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