NASA and the Citizen Science Alliance have announced Moon Zoo, a project that essentially aims at providing detailed cratercounts for as much as the Moon’s surface as possible. This happens through examination of a several high-res pictures of moon so as to provide answers to the scientific questions about the big rock orbiting us every 27.3 days.

No spacesuit or rocket ship is required – all visitors need to do is go to www.moonzoo.org and be among the first to see the lunar surface in unprecedented detail. Moon Zoo users will view new images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) and search for clues to the history of both the moon and our solar system. LRO is a remarkable spacecraft, the product of years of hard work by an enormous team of scientists and engineers who made the mission possible.

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It carries, amongst other instruments, an incredible camera, LROC. LROC is actually three cameras — two Narrow Angle Cameras which supply Moon Zoo images, and a Wide Angle Camera. Data from the first six months of the mission have been released by the LROC team through the Planetary Data System (PDS).The Moo

n Zoo Web site is a citizen science project developed by the Citizen Science Alliance, a group of research organizations and museums, and builds on the team’s success with Galaxy Zoo, which has involved more than 250,000 people in astronomical research.

It was more than 37 years after humans last walked on the moon, here is your chance to return to the lunar surface and discover the undiscovered….