Newsletter #21: November 30, 2012

We are going to space!

SciStarter has a research project headed to the International Space Station (ISS) via Space X in December 2013! As winners of the (ISS) Research Competition, we will be comparing growth rates of microbes collected on Earth (by the SciStarter community and our partners) to those collected on high touch surfaces on the ISS. We'll also contribute to a world population map of microbiomes. This research proposal, in collaboration with Science Cheerleader and UCDavis, was selected by Space Florida.

We are looking for people to lead and manage various components of the program. Check out the list of opportunities to get involved on the SciStarter Blog.

Hungry for citizen science in space right now? Check out the projects listed below!

Keep experimenting!

- The SciStarter Team

NASA JPL’s Inforgraphics

NASA JPL’s Inforgraphics

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) needs you to take complex scientific data and images and turn them into informative graphics to convey a simple and easy to understand messages! The JPL’s newest venture is called JPL Infographics, and they need your help to create and post your very own creations of scientific graphic art.



Planet Hunters

Planet Hunters

Planet Hunters is a project from Zooniverse where citizen scientists help astronomers identify new planets. Through data taken from the Kepler Spacecraft, citizens are helping scientists identify stars with possible planets in the Cygnus constellation.



SETILive

SETILive

SETILive volunteers try to detect extraterrestrial signals from space. The computer algorithms used by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have a hard time distinguishing between signals that might be extraterrestrial and those that are from earth. Researchers need your help to find interesting signals in all that noise.