Million Crater Challenge

This is Global Astronomy Month (GAM)! Here at CosmoQuest, we are partnering with the wonderful folks over at Astronomers Without Borders to define ways to challenge you to get involved. Right now, a lot of us might be teased as Moon Mapping Lunatics, and in coming up with a way to engage in you and everyone [...]

Full Moon Maker Progress as of 9:55am CST, April 20
This is Global Astronomy Month (GAM)! Here at CosmoQuest, we are partnering with the wonderful folks over at Astronomers Without Borders to define ways to challenge you to get involved.
Right now, a lot of us might be teased as Moon Mapping Lunatics, and in coming up with a way to engage in you and everyone else in GAM, we decided to spread our lunacy.
Right now, the new moon can’t be seen in the sky, but it can be seen by the orbiting Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and in the data we have from that mission.
Our challenge to you is to try and observe 1 million craters on the Moon before the crescent moon becomes visible in the evening sky.
We’d ask you to go online, contribute to science, and then go ...