{"id":4265,"date":"2010-05-26T07:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T11:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2010-05-25T07:48:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T11:48:02","slug":"take-a-walk-on-the-moon-virtually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4265","title":{"rendered":"Take a Walk on the Moon, Virtually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera  has taken lots of new extremely high-resolution pictures of the moon, and they&#8217;re crowdsourcing their analysis.  The public is invited to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonzoo.org\/\">Moon Zoo<\/a> site to view and interpret the new images.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We need Web users around the world to help us interpret these stunning new images of the lunar surface,&#8221; said Chris Lintott of Oxford University and chair of the Citizen Science Alliance. &#8220;If you only spend five minutes on the site counting craters you\u2019ll be making a valuable contribution to science and, who knows, you might run across a Russian spacecraft.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Behold the power of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov\/articles\/nasa-invites-public-to-take-virtual-walk-on-moon\">this article<\/a> at the NASA site for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken lots of new extremely high-resolution pictures of the moon, and they&#8217;re crowdsourcing their analysis. The public is invited to visit the Moon Zoo site to view and interpret the new images. &#8220;We need Web users around the world to help us interpret these stunning new images of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4267,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions\/4267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}