| We need to thank the hundreds of people who took the time to create a Zooniverse account (or use their existing one) to help classify features on the reef. It’s been just over a week that the NEEMO-Zooniverse platform (designed by Vizzuality) has been in active beta testing, and we are really excited in the [...]
| I had just started at NASA when I saw Nick Skytland give this presentation on Participatory Exploration, and it captured my imagination. Participatory Exploration View more presentations from Nick Skytland This time you get to participate. Not ‘you get to read about it,’ or ‘you can carry the briefcase of the real heroes.’ Not ‘you get to sit [...]
| As you may know, NASA has been working on new concepts for the human exploration of asteroids. Across the agency, experts are being called into action to develop solutions to this new challenge. In particular, NEEMO-15, slated for October 17th-26th, will test new tools, techniques, timelining approaches and communication technologies which could be useful when [...]
| This October, NASA will send astronauts and engineers to the National Marine Sanctuary in Key Largo to live underwater for 10 days as part of the NEEMO-15 Mission. NEEMO stands for “NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations”, and is a project that trains NASA explorers for missions to planetary destinations. The crewmembers of this mission will [...]
