I was listening to Ira Flatow interview a guy from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team. The guy said they were getting a tera-byte of info a week, more than they can handle.
Why don’t they just put that all in the public domain, let some hackers create a great interface, and let people ‘roam’ the data sets and start making their own discoveries.
Astronomy already gets a huge boost from ‘amatuers’. Why can’t NASA?
Link: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: Home:
NASA Orbiter Provides Insights About Mars Water and Climate
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is examining several features on Mars that address the role of water at different times in Martian history
I think they did it already:
http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/top
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