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Active Asteroids
Help map the distribution of water in the solar system
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Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors
Discover the Sun’s most extreme cosmic neighbors.
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Backyard Worlds: Planet 9
Search the realm beyond Neptune for new brown dwarfs and planets.
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Burst Chaser
Classify gamma-ray bursts
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Made possible by the NASA Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program (CSESP), the Chesapeake Water Watch is a joint project between the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the City College of New York (CCNY).
Chesapeake Water Watch (CWW)
Improve Chesapeake Bay water quality
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Cloudspotting On Mars
Characterize exotic clouds high in the Martian atmosphere.
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Dark Energy Explorers
Help measure dark energy when the universe was just ~2-3 billion years old.
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Exoplanet Watch
Discover more about planets beyond our solar system.
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Wayne RESA
Exploring Surface Temperature and Urban Heat Island Effects Using a NASA AREN TerraROVER
Join the AEROKATS and ROVER Education Network for three virtual sessions in May to learn new ways your students can explore how surface materials impact local temperatures and produce phenomena such as the Urban Heat Island Effect. Materials sent to you in advance. Apply by March 31, 2025.
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- May 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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NASA / Vernet Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Fjord Phyto
Monitor phytoplankton communities along the Antarctic Peninsula
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