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Moon Zoo Science Conference Abstract Now Available
Full Moon - Credit, Stuart Robbins Hello Zooites! This is a quick post to let you know that I’m headed to the Planetary Crater Consortium conference in Flagstaff, AZ, in about three weeks and I’ll be...
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New Look for Moon Zoo
Moon Zoo launched more than 18 months ago and we’ve been meaning to make some changes to the site. Later today our refreshed site will go live! You’ll notice that we’ve had the decorators in – the...
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Computers counting craters
By Anthony Milbourne (Birkbeck College) In this blog I would like to talk about automated crater counting, which as the name suggests, is the use of computers to identify and count craters. Computers...
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The Scientific Legacy of Apollo
By Ian Crawford (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College, London) Fig. 1. One of the last two men on the Moon: Harrison Schmitt stands next to a large boulder at the Apollo 17...
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December 15: Measuring the regolith thickness at the Apollo 17 site
By Ian Crawford (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College) Estimating the thickness of the unconsolidated lunar regolith is one of the major scientific objectives of Moon Zoo....
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Moon Zoo Science Goals
Here’s a reminder the Moon Zoo science goals- and what our clicks are being used for. Crater Survey 1. To improve our knowledge of the production of small lunar craters by gathering information about...
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Thank you Moon Zoo!
The MoonZoo science team would like to extend a gigantic thank you to all 20,627 users who contributed in counting craters (and more!) relating to the Apollo 17 landing site (Taurus-Littrow)! Let’s...
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Apollo 12 – a new challenge is set!
Dear MoonZoo aficionados, Our next surveying exercise will be centred on the Apollo 12 landing site. Your previous and successful endeavour saw hundreds of thousands of craters and interesting...
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Why Study The Moon?
The Moon is seriously old and our objective here at Moon Zoo is to study its surface with the time and detail that cannot be afforded by a small team of scientists. Earth’s closest neighbour and only...
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Lunar Launches of 2013
2013 was a fantastic year for Moon missions, providing a new orbiter, lander and even a rover to take a fresh look at the lunar surface and what lies below. These instruments are exploring both...
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