MISSION 47Citizen science assignment desk

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47 projects. Six explorers. One clear assignment board.

Every active citizen-science project listed by NASA, numbered in source order and distributed round-robin across the team. Open a card for its task, requirements, official website, and related resources.

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Spiral Graph: Cluster Buster logo. A stylized, five‑armed spiral is drawn on a black background with brightly colored, hand‑sketched lines—magenta, green, pink, orange, and purple—suggesting the overlapping tracings of galaxy arms. The spiral sits inside a thin magenta circle.01AKASH

Astrophysics/ Universe

Spiral Graph: Cluster Buster

Verify the work of an algorithm to unlock the secrets of spiral galaxies! Anyone with a smartphone or laptop can do this project.

Examine images
A vibrant logo set against a starry space background. In the center is a colorful, striped planet featuring shades of blue, green, and pink, surrounded by a glowing orange-red ring. A white silhouette of a telescope on a tripod points up toward the planet. Arcing above the planet is the text "BACKYARD WORLDS:" in white, blue-outlined letters. Arcing below is the word "BINARIES" in large, stylized red bubble letters on a white, cloud-like background.02ABHINEET

Astrophysics

Backyard Worlds: Binaries

Help scientists find binary star systems that include elusive celestial bodies known as brown dwarfs. Anyone with a smartphone or laptop can do this project.

Examining Images
Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II logo. On a black background, the slashed O Zooniverse logo is colored in by a false-color image of a clumpy galaxy as observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A Roman numeral II sits in the lower foreground.03ANJALI

Astrophysic s

Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II

Identify star-forming clumps in galaxy images, and help train machines to do the same. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examine images
04SURYANSH

Sun

Shock Detectives

Help scientists understand how the Earth’s magnetic field sculpts the solar wind. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining data
05HEMANT

Planetary

Impact Flash!

You and your telescope can join a global network of amateur astronomers documenting meteors hitting the moon.

Collecting data with an amateur telescope
White CoCoRaHS logo on dark blue background06PRITESH

Earth Science

Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network

Join a national community of precipitation reporters providing critical data to improve scientific understanding and forecasts.

Collecting data with special equipment
Tidal Tales logo. A cartoon depicts two galaxies with opposite rotations merging together against a backdrop of black space. Each galaxy has a "tidal tail" or extended arm of material sweeping away from its nucleus. These two tails are crossing below the nuclei of the galaxies such that the whole configuration resembles a Valentine heart.07AKASH

Astrophysics/ Universe

Galaxy Zoo: Tidal Tales

Help read the story of galactic encounters in galaxy shapes. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examine images
In this graphic logo we see a yellow star orbited by three planets. A green planet orbits in the plane of the image, on the inner edge of an aqua-colored ring. At the outer edge of the aqua-colored ring, a blue planet orbits in the same plane as the green one. Oblique to these planets, a smaller red planet orbits alone, it's orbit marked by a skinny circle that we see on its edge.08ABHINEET

Solar System

Planet Hunters TESS

Search for planets outside our solar system using data from NASA’s TESS mission. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining data
Space Umbrella logo. The image shows a cartoon Sun and Earth against a backdrop of dark space. Orange lines representing charged particles extend out from the surface of the Sun. An umbrella is sticking out of the top of the Earth, deflecting the orange lines from the Sun, but not the light. The side of the Earth nearest the Sun is lit, with visible continents and ocean and clouds, while the far side is dark.09ANJALI

Heliophysics

Space Umbrella

Use data from NASA’s Magnetosphere Multiscale Mission to shed light on solar storms. For anyone with a laptop or cell

Examine images
A shield-shaped emblem with a black background and a silver border. At the top, purple arched text reads "GROWING". Below that, the text "BEYOND EARTH" flanks a drawing of the International Space Station with the Earth behind it, surrounded by colorful stars. At the bottom, the text "FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN" arcs over an illustration of a leafy green vegetable, like bok choy.10SURYANSH

Space experiments

Growing Beyond Earth®

Middle and high school teachers in the U.S.: your students can test plants for use in space missions. Classroom-ready!

Collecting data with special equipment
Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups Logo11HEMANT

Biological and Physical Science

OSDR AWG

Help astronauts and life thrive in space using space biology and health data. Laptop required. Data science knowledge is helpful.

Independent work with data
A fun logo featuring a friendly, smiling blue cartoon comet character holding a small catching net. The words "RUBIN" are arched in light blue text above the character, and "COMET CATCHERS" is arched below it. The background is a dark blue with faint stars and subtle circuit board lines.12PRITESH

Planetary Science

Rubin Comet Catchers

View candidate comets from Rubin Observatory and check them for tails. For anyone with a laptop or cell phone.

Examine images
Graphic with a textured lunar surface background, featuring a cartoon-style map pin shaped like the Moon and the text ‘World Mappers Lunar Melt’ in bold white lettering.13AKASH

Planetary Science

Lunar Melt

Map the Moon’s Molten Flows using images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. For anyone with a laptop.

Examine images
Photo of a large bull elk with horns walking up to a trail camera in the woods14ABHINEET

Earth Science

Snapshot Wisconsin

Track wildlife by classifying images captured on trail cameras. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examine images
A circular logo with a blue background. The acronym "OWWL" sits at the top. Inside the circle is a stylized light blue building, with a small white airplane flying diagonally above it, leaving an orange trail. The words "OZONE WHERE WE LIVE" are written along the bottom curve of the circle.15ANJALI

Earth Science

Ozone Where We Live

Teachers and pilots near California’s San Joaquin Valley, help measure the quality of your air!

Collecting data with special equipment
A photograph showing the dark silhouettes of two people, one kneeling and one standing, holding cameras up to take pictures of a spectacular sky filled with bright, wispy noctilucent clouds against a dark blue twilight. A silhouette of a forest line is visible at the very bottom. The text "Space Cloud Watch" and "Noctilucent Clouds" is overlaid at the top in white and grey lettering.16SURYANSH

Heliophysics

Space Cloud Watch

Photograph clouds just after sunset or before dawn to investigate our changing atmosphere. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Collecting data
Galaxy Zoo logo. Image features a stylized circular design with green textured rings and diagonal lines on a dark, starry backdrop. A black box at lower left symbolizes a solar panel, in reference to the fact that data is sourced from space telescopes17HEMANT

Astrophysics

Galaxy Zoo

Classify images of galaxies taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining images
A stick-figure white snowflake on a blue circle is partly eclipsed by a red "X." Underneath is the word "X-Snow."18PRITESH

Earth Science

X-Snow

New Yorkers: Help scientists measure snow on the ground using your phone! For anyone in the Catskills or Adirondacks region.

Collecting data with special equipment
This image was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft on Julyy 21, 2019, during Juno's 20th perijove pass.19AKASH

Planetary Science

JunoCam

Share your images of Jupiter and participate in the JunoCam mission. For anyone with a laptop.

Independent work with data
A circular cartoon logo featuring a striped, orange and yellow planet in the background. In the foreground, a cute, smiling white comet with a yellow tail flies past dark grey asteroids. The text "EXOASTEROIDS" is written along a grey curved banner at the bottom.20ABHINEET

Astrophysics

Exoasteroids

Search space telescope images for white dwarfs that flash as they devour asteroids. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining data
Image is an artist's conception of wispy clouds over the cratered surface of the Red Planet, with the starry background of space behind Mars. The planet fills the bottom-right 2/3 of the image. We see its red horizon arcing from mid-left to top right. From our perspective well above the planet, the wispy blue rendering of clouds appears below the horizon, so we are looking down on the cloud, which arches from left to right like a blue feather. The word “SHAPES” appears in irregular letters across the blue cloud.21ANJALI

Planetary Science

Cloudspotting on Mars: Shapes

Map cloud formations in images of the Martian atmosphere. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining images
Eclipsing Binary Project logo A black circle is surrounded by a multi-color (turquoise to fuchsia) band. Inside from the band is a ring of colorful, small dots. Inside from the dotes is a white ring. Inside that ring is a four color band, each color occupying one quarter of the band. Inboard of that is black. In the middle of this black is a gold and orange circle.22SURYANSH

Universe

Eclipsing Binary Patrol

Examine space telescope data to find special rare pairs of stars. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining data
Aqua green planet illustration sits behind the title text Cool Neighbors with another small planet in the upper right. An orange stroke line surrounds the logo.23HEMANT

Universe

Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors

Discover Jupiter-like objects, balls of gas called brown dwarfs in our cosmic backyard. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining data
A black square with a white off-centered dot. Two triangles radiate out of the dot from brown to bright pink. A purple oval ring circles the white dot and an aqua line spikes up and level out.24PRITESH

Universe

Burst Chaser

Help decipher signals of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic and mysterious explosions in the universe! For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining data
Chesapeake Water Watch logo. This rectangular block displays the project name in black capital letters, with a few subtle adornments. The "A" in water is highlighted in a blue teardrop of water, underneath which we see blue waves. The "A" in watch is a satellite. At the bottom we see the logos of the City College of New York, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and the NASA Partner logo.25AKASH

Earth Science

Chesapeake Water Watch

Live near the Chesapeake Bay? Collect water-quality data with your smartphone.

Collecting data with a smartphone
26ABHINEET

Earth Science

Fresh Eyes on Ice

Live in Alaska? Report ice conditions to keep people safe and climate scientists informed.

Collecting data
27ANJALI

Heliophysics

Radio JOVE

Build your own radio telescope and study Jupiter, the Sun, the Earth’s Ionosphere, and the Milky Way galaxy.

Collecting data with special equipment
28SURYANSH

Heliophysics

Spritacular

Have a camera? Submit your own photographs of the colorful flashes of light seen above thunderclouds.

Collecting data with special equipment
29HEMANT

Earth Science

Landslide Reporter

See a landslide or read about one? Submit your observations. For anyone with a laptop.

Collecting data with smartphone
IASC text above a silhouette of a person looking up to the stars and a shooting start30PRITESH

Planetary

International Astronomical Search Collaboration

Teams from schools and communities: Search for asteroids and help keep Earth safe. Classroom-ready!

Examining images
Hand holing a smart phone31AKASH

Earth Science

GLOBE Observer

Choose from several different projects to help scientists learn about planet Earth. For anyone with a smartphone. Kid friendly!

Collecting data with a smartphone
32ABHINEET

Solar System

Daily Minor Planet

Find asteroids and small objects in nightly sky surveys as part of NASA’s planetary defense mission. For anyone with a laptop or smartphone.

Examine images
33ANJALI

Astrophysics

UNITE: Unistellar Network Investigating TESS Exoplanets

Use your telescope to observe planets beyond our solar system. Unistellar telescope required.

Collecting data with telescope
The Sun's atmosphere, shown in red, with a bright white stream of a comet shooting through it.34SURYANSH

Heliophysics

The Sungrazer Project

Discover new comets near the Sun. For anyone with a laptop.

Independent work with data
Floating in the black of deep space we see a jaunty astronaut in a white suit. He is sporting a red cowboy hat. In his extended hand is a lasso, the looped end of which has encircled a rainbow colored spiral galaxy.35HEMANT

Astrophysics

Redshift Wrangler

Clock the expansion of the universe using light from distant galaxies. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining data
Mountain Rain or Snow logo. In a grey-blue circle, we see a cartoon of snow-capped mountains under a storm cloud, with a rain drop on one side and a snowflake on the other. The color palette is white, grey-blue, to black. Across the bottom of the circle and extending outside of the circle are the worlds Mountain Rain or Snow.36PRITESH

Earth Science

Mountain Rain or Snow

Near the mountains? Help climate scientists by using your cell phone to report rain and snow.

Collecting data with smartphone
37AKASH

Earth Science

Fjord Phyto

Visiting Antarctica? Investigate changes in phytoplankton along the western Antarctic Peninsula.

Collecting data
A silhouette of an antenna and two people standing on a rooftop against a dusk sky. The stylized text "HamSCI" with dots above and below the letters is displayed prominently, along with the website URL "http://hamsci.org" below it.38ABHINEET

Heliophysics

Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation

Amateur radio operators: help scientists study Earth’s ionosphere.

Collecting data with special equipment
A minimalist logo featuring a large dark blue circle intersected horizontally by a teal line. A smaller light blue circle sits on the right side of the line, overlapping the large circle. Below the graphic, the text "EXOPLANET WATCH" is written in black, uppercase letters.39ANJALI

Astrophysics

Exoplanet Watch

Track new planets beyond our solar system using backyard telescope data or request data online. For anyone with a laptop.

Collecting data with telescope
40SURYANSH

Astrophysics

Dark Energy Explorers

Uncover dark energy, a mysterious force driving galaxies apart. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining data
We see a planet with a drawn-on simple smily face and stick-arms holding an old-fashioned spyglass up to its dot of a right eye. The planet's surface has blue and green patches that make it look like Earth.41HEMANT

Astrophysics

Backyard Worlds: Planet 9

Search the realm beyond Neptune for new planets, nearby stars and more. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Online
In a starry night-time panorama, a purple and grey arc stretches from side to side (east to west) over a silhouetted plain, framing green aurora in the distance. Directly beneath the arc are green stripes, the “picket fence” features that occur with STEVE.42PRITESH

Heliophysics

Aurorasaurus

Submit your observations of the Northern and Southern lights.

Collecting data
A thick purple circle is bisected from lower left to upper right by a thinner line that tapers at each end, reminiscent of a ring around a planet as seen from the edge. In the center of the ring is a purple shape that looks vaguely like a human head, with round top and pointy chin. Only this head has two large white almond-shaped eyes. It is an alien.43AKASH

Astrophysics

Are we Alone in the Universe?

Examine radio signals to help search for intelligent life beyond Earth. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining data
44ABHINEET

Planetary

Active Asteroids

Inspect images to find comet-like objects hiding in the asteroid belt. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining images
45ANJALI

Earth

Lake Observations by Citizen Scientists and Satellites

Near a participating lake? If yes, report the water level with your smartphone. If not, learn how to add your lake to the effort.

Collecting data
A cartoon white magnifying glass is centered on a yellow sphere with a ring around it against a black background. The magnified image in the center of the square logo is meant to be a star encircled by a debris disk.46SURYANSH

Universe

Disk Detective

Search for dusty disks around stars where distant worlds form and dwell. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Examining data
red and blue streaks of Martian clouds over text47HEMANT

Solar System

Cloudspotting on Mars

Trace exotic clouds in the Martian atmosphere. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.

Online