Welcome Martian cloudspotters!
The project is live! Check it out at https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marek-slipski/cloudspotting-on-mars!
Official Zooniverse launch date: June 28th, 2022
This is the landing spot for all aspects of the Cloudspotting on Mars project, part of NASA Citizen Science and Zooniverse. We'll update the Announcements section with important dates and upcoming events. Join our newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox. See recent write-ups at the blog. Start or join a discussion about the project. Check out our repositories for analyzing Mars Climate Sounder data and identified clouds.
Send an email to cloudspottingonmars@gmail.com to get updates sent straight to your inbox.
Checkout the project's blog posts
https://twitter.com/CloudspottingM
We try to hold webinars on a 1-2 month timescale to give updates, talk more about the science, and answer lots of questions. You can watch previous webinars on our Youtube page.
- Webinar 1: Friday July 15th at 9am PT/12pm ET
- Webinar 2: Friday August 26th at 9am PT/12pm ET
- Webinar 3: Friday Nov 4th, 8am PT/11am ET
- Webinar 4: Friday Feb 3rd, 9am PT/12pm ET
- Webinar 5: Friday Aug 4th, 9am PT/12pm ET
- Webinar 6: Friday, April 12, 2024 at 9am PT/12pm ET
- Planetary Radio Podcast: Citizen Science: Join the search for Martian clouds
- WIRED: NASA Is Crowdsourcing Cloud Research—on Mars
- NPR Morning Edition: NASA scientists need your help finding clouds on Mars
- NASA feature: Help NASA Scientists Find Clouds on Mars
- LAist: Get Your Head In The (Martian) Clouds — For Science
- Astronomi (University of Oslo): Skyer på Mars
- New Scientist: Join the hunt for clouds high up in the Martian atmosphere
- NASA Citizen Science Highlight: Cloudspotting on Mars Project Extended!
- Observador: Citizen Science and Zooniverse
- Called out in NASA's Budget Justification to Congress in the President's Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2025
If you're here, you probably arrived after discovering the Cloudspotting on Mars project on Zooniverse. Our goal here is to create a community around the project -- meeting each other through video conferences, furthering the research by analyzing results, and writing about our experience.