Disk Detective

Disk Detective
Type of site
Citizen science project
Available inEnglish, Spanish, German, Polish, Chinese, Indonesian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Portuguese
Created byDisk Detective Team
URLwww.diskdetective.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched31 January 2014;
10 years ago (2014-01-31)
Current statusOnline

Disk Detective is the first NASA-led and funded-collaboration project with Zooniverse.[1] It is NASA's largest crowdsourcing citizen science project[2] aiming at engaging the general public in search of stars, which are surrounded by dust-rich circumstellar disks, where planets usually dwell and are formed.[3][4] Initially launched by NASA Citizen Science Officer, Marc Kuchner, the principal investigation of the project was turned over to Steven Silverberg.[5]

  1. ^ "Zooniverse".
  2. ^ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-032 NASA-Sponsored 'Disk Detective' Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries
  3. ^ Launching Disk Detective: A New Citizen Science Website › Marketing For Scientists
  4. ^ Sinai Nick and Smith Gayle (6 December 2013). "Second Open Government National Action Plan". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 6 December 2013 – via National Archives.
  5. ^ Disk Detective: Team