Stardust@Home Lets Public Search Grains of Dust 87
An anonymous reader writes "In a new project called Stardust@home, UC Berkeley researchers are inviting Internet users to help them search for a few dozen submicroscopic grains of interstellar dust captured by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. Rather than relying on the user's spare PC cycles, though, the system depends on their eyes." From the article: "Though Stardust's main mission was to capture dust from the tail of comet Wild 2 - dust dating from the origins of the solar system some 4.5 billion years ago - it also captured a sprinkling of dust from distant stars, perhaps created in supernova explosions less than 10 million years ago."
NASA have already used internet users' eyeballs (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Time is money (Score:1, Informative)
At least 100000. See http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/ [nasa.gov]
Site link (Score:4, Informative)
The Missing Link (Score:4, Informative)
The Stardust@Home Project [berkeley.edu] where you can pre-register and find out more.
NASA graphical page for Stardust location (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Time is money (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Image processing/pattern recognition? (Score:2, Informative)