Cloudspotting on Mars: Shapes

Clouds on Mars help regulate climate, just as they do on Earth. But scientists don’t yet have answers to the most basic questions about clouds on Mars: What are the daily, seasonal and yearly patterns in Martian cloud shapes and distributions? How do Martian clouds reflect wind patterns? Do similarities between Earth’s and Mars’s cloud types indicate similar formation mechanisms?
Help this project find answers! Join the team to help map Martian clouds in data collected by the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft to create a database that will help answer these questions.

What you’ll do:

• Learn about a variety of cloud types that exist on Mars and how to spot them.
• Examine images of Mars from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft
• Click on the images to tag clouds of each common type
• Connect with other people with similar interests via Zooniverse TALK bulletin boards (https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/matteocrismani/cloudspotting-on-mars-shapes/talk).

Learn more:

• Read the Research Pages on the project’s website (https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/matteocrismani/cloudspotting-on-mars-shapes/about/research) to learn more about the science of Cloudspotting on Mars: Shapes and the goals of this project.
• Check out another project led by this team: Cloudspotting on Mars (also listed on SciStarter).