{"id":139,"date":"2014-03-16T18:15:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T23:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2014-03-16T18:15:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T23:15:40","slug":"moon-mappers-and-citizen-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Moon Mappers and Citizen Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Cosmoquest and their online star parties held via Google Hangout. Then a while back I learned about their efforts to crowd source lunar crater mapping, and best of all it required no experience OR actual understanding of astronomy \ud83d\ude42 So I signed up and did a little mapping off and on. <\/p>\n<p>I was excited to see this article by the Bad Astronomer in Slate:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2014\/03\/16\/moon_mappers_citizen_scientists_count_craters_like_the_pros.html\">http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2014\/03\/16\/moon_mappers_citizen_scientists_count_craters_like_the_pros.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love when science is accessible even to those of us who have no real knowledge, but have a real interest in it. How cool is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Cosmoquest and their online star parties held via Google Hangout. Then a while back I learned about their efforts to crowd source lunar crater mapping, and best of all it required no experience OR actual understanding of astronomy \ud83d\ude42 So I signed up and did a little mapping off and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2nerdstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}