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Technical Questions and Support / Re: red triangle

« on: May 20, 2013, 05:51:29 am »

I get this problem as well but not very often, something to do with the internet connection probably. Clicking the browser refresh button fixes it.

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Cafe Copernicus / Moonsweeping

« on: May 12, 2013, 08:43:01 am »

Something for the weekend: The hidden art of moonsweeping

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Lunar Science / Re: Water on the moon

« on: May 10, 2013, 08:46:45 am »

From the LA Times: Moon's water may have come from Earth-bound asteroids

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The source of the moon's internal water may be meteorites that bombarded ancient Earth, not comets, as had been theorized, say researchers who studied lunar rocks from two Apollo missions.

Using rocks returned from the Apollo 15 and 17 missions, they extracted water from crystals in the rock and looked at the hydrogen isotopic fingerprint of the water - this matched ancient asteroids rather than comets.

And a similar article from Nature: Common source for Earth and Moon water

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Moon Zoo Object Collections / Re: Boulder Tracks

« on: May 10, 2013, 08:37:59 am »

Hi Ian

Try this - in Quick Map position your mouse to coordinates - Latitude = -2.15 Longitude = -23.4 and double-click. Then position your mouse to the same coordinates and double-click again and eventually you'll get to your image. (longitude -23.4 is calculated from 360 - 336.4)

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Image of the Week / Re: Monday 6 May 2013 - Thank You Moon Zoo!

« on: May 07, 2013, 07:22:45 am »

Very good to have some feedback from the science team.

The figure 1 caption needs to be corrected - the MoonZoo users' input is on the left not the right.

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Moon Zoo Object Collections / Re: Interesting terrain

« on: May 05, 2013, 06:22:49 am »

Quote from: ElisabethB on May 04, 2013, 06:54:13 pm

Any ideas on the little black arc, center image ?
Looks a bit artifacty
AMZ4004lp5

I also had this one to classify recently - the object looks like a tadpole! Don't know what it is.

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Moon Zoo News / Seeking Stellar "Citizen Scientists"

« on: April 29, 2013, 01:13:26 pm »

The White House blog has an entry asking for nominations for a Citizen Science champion.

Seeking Stellar "Citizen Scientists" as White House Champions of Change

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Every day, across the country, ordinary Americans known as “citizen scientists” make critical contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by collecting, analyzing, and sharing a wide range of data—from weather phenomena, to sightings of migrating birds, to the timing of flower blooms at different latitudes. Now, the White House is preparing to honor some of the Nation’s most effective contributors to these important but sometimes-overlooked public servants.

Looks like this is for US citizens only so if any Moon Zoo users from the US want to nominate anyone use the link above. Please mention Zooniverse if you can.

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Image of the Week / Monday 29 April 2013 - Crater chain near Rima T Mayer

« on: April 29, 2013, 09:27:22 am »

While browsing through the Lunar Networks blog I found an article about an unusual secondary crater chain near Rima T Mayer (between Copernicus and Kepler craters). The crater chain is about 3km in length and was probably created as a result of a nearby impact.
Crater chains can be formed in three ways; as primary impacts by a connected string of impacting objects (Comet Shoemaker-Levy is an example), as secondary impacts from a nearby primary impact, and by collapses of volcanic vents along a graben, Rima Hyginus is a good example.

Closeup of secondary crater chain. Latitude: 13.36 N Longitude: 31.19 W

Crater chain in relation to Rima T Mayer

The original article in the Lunar Networks blog is well worth a read and has further images of the crater chain:

Crater chain near Rima T Mayer

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