Lunar Rocks! 2024-2025

The Lunar Rocks! is sponsored by NASA JPL and is currently in its second year, originally called VIPER Rocks!. The Lunar Rocks! Website serves as the public's personal connection to scientific exploration of the moon. Citizen scientists will contribute to the scientific understanding of the lunar surface by analyzing images from lunar missions. Citizen scientists will do 3 tasks including:

• Scouting - Citizen scientists will count the number of rocks in an image, allowing the workload of image analysis to be divided more evenly among citizen scientists.
• Sizing - Citizen scientists will help measure rock sizes by tracing the perimeters of the rocks in each image.
• Classification - Citizen scientists will classify the shape of each rock, according to a validated scale from sharp to rounded.

A beta test of the Viper Rocks! Website Experience will be conducted in early April.

Meet the team: