NASA has posted a new project on the Citizen Science Portal Zooniverseextension of the original project Galaxy Zoo which invited Internet users to classify the galaxies. Futura has already devoted several articles to this portal, which gives everyone the opportunity to put themselves in the shoes of a researcher on the cutting edge of research by becoming, for example:
Most recently, we invited you to help planetary scientists break through the secrets of Jupiter’s atmosphere and today it’s the turn of the secrets of the atmosphere of the Red Planet with the project Cloudspotting on Mars.
We study Mars for several reasons and from several angles; first, no doubt, to find out how habitable and perhaps even inhabited it was more than 3 billion years ago. But, as it is no longer so today, except perhaps for microscopic life forms in pockets of water kept liquid in the vicinity of its volcanoes, there is also the question of knowing why and how this habitability stopped.
A thorough knowledge of the atmosphere of Mars is necessary to understand this loss which was accompanied by a massive loss of water and its initial atmosphere.
More generally, by applying Earth’s atmosphere and climate models to Mars, we can simultaneously test these models to better understand the future of our Blue Planet with its ongoing climate change and better understand Mars.
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Meteorology on Mars as seen by NASA probes and rovers. To obtain a fairly accurate French translation, click on the white rectangle at the bottom right. The English subtitles should then appear. Then click on the nut to the right of the rectangle, then on “Subtitles” and finally on “Translate automatically”. Choose “French”. © NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of…
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