Stardust@home |
Stardust@home |
Nov 17 2005, 01:00 PM
Post
#1
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
I don't found any post about Stardust@Home so I created a new thread.
Stardust@Home is a distributed search by volunteers for interstellar dust in the Stardust interstellar dust collector. Volunteers have to pre-register for an expected start in spring of 2006. You will also have to pass a test to be qualified for the search. Indeed, unlike the distributed computer projects running in background tasks, this project is using your eyes to scan "focus movies" thanks to a Virtual Microscope. According to estimations, there should be about 45 interstellar dust impacts in the collector. Besides the satisfaction of contributing actively to this sample return project, your name will appear as a co-author on the paper announcing the discovery of the particle. http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Rakhir |
|
|
Jan 9 2006, 02:20 PM
Post
#2
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
Is there some sort of explanation from the Stardust team why this detection cannot be done by a computer program scanning the images? Are the marks left by interstellar dust so unpredictable that human work is needed? How does the person know what to look for then?
I'd imagine that the trail would just be longer because of higher velocity of interstellar particles, so it seems strange that this couldn't be detected by a machine. Anyhow, I already signed for the job anyway :-) -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
|
|
|
Feb 3 2006, 12:11 PM
Post
#3
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 688 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 273 |
QUOTE (akuo @ Jan 9 2006, 04:20 PM) Is there some sort of explanation from the Stardust team why this detection cannot be done by a computer program scanning the images? Are the marks left by interstellar dust so unpredictable that human work is needed? How does the person know what to look for then? Because people have an image processing and pattern recognition software package that has had about 1,000,000,000 years of development work invested in it. tty |
|
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 23rd September 2024 - 08:36 PM |
RULES AND GUIDELINES Please read the Forum Rules and Guidelines before posting. IMAGE COPYRIGHT |
OPINIONS AND MODERATION Opinions expressed on UnmannedSpaceflight.com are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of UnmannedSpaceflight.com or The Planetary Society. The all-volunteer UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderation team is wholly independent of The Planetary Society. The Planetary Society has no influence over decisions made by the UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderators. |
SUPPORT THE FORUM Unmannedspaceflight.com is funded by the Planetary Society. Please consider supporting our work and many other projects by donating to the Society or becoming a member. |