NASA Crowdsources Hi-Res Mars Mapping as an Online Game for Kids | Popular Science

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Lifestyle L3AK online update reports NASA Crowdsources Hi-Res Mars Mapping as an Online Game for Kids | Popular Science


This goes beyond just providing mild amusement for the Internet hordes. NASA hopes that the crowd-sourcing can harness the efforts of thousands to create better Mars maps and smoother zoom-in views, which might allow scientists to better interpret Martian surface changes. Don't worry if you get one or two craters wrong, either, because there's probably another dozen people who got it right.

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