T215 Engaging the Public in Science: Promoting a Deeper Understanding of Our World and Beyond

Wednesday, 18 October 2023
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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NASA'S CITIZEN SCIENCE PROGRAM: SCIENCE IS MORE FUN WITH VOLUNTEERS!

Paper number: T215-3
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 8:20 AM – 8:35 AM

Authors

Abstract

Citizen science has become a major force in planetary science. NASA's volunteers have discovered most of the known comets, every known sample of interstellar dust, hundreds of exoplanets and planetary-mass objects, the Peter Pan protoplanetary disk phenomenon, the oldest analog of our solar system, and much more. NASA's 38 active citizen science projects engage more than 2 million volunteers from more than 160 different countries. More than 450 of these volunteers have become named co-authors on published papers. Doing your science with volunteers produces novel results that would otherwise be un-attainable--and it's fun! I'll describe NASA's growing commitment to citizen science, and explain how you can get involved.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 55, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-393378

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