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* Infrastructure: Zooniverse
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Subject

* Natural sciences > astronomy, astrophyics (space)

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⇳ Description Explore interactive diagrams to learn about the Sun and the spacecraft monitoring it. The STEREO spacecraft is scientists’ latest mission to study the Sun and space weather – not clouds and rain, but how solar storms change conditions in space and on Earth. ➠ Purpose The reason that we want lots of people doing this is because that takes away the subjectivity. If we have a consensus view of what a CME looks like and which way it's going then you can be much more confident about that answer being correct. ? Research question The STEREO Mission itself has several big questions that it’s trying to answer. We know that the Sun kicks out these vast solar storms. Each one of these storms is a billion tons of material traveling at a million miles an hour, so they’re not inconsequential. But nobody quite knows why they happen, what causes them to be triggered. For the first time with STEREO, we are actually being able to track these storms continuously all the way from the Sun right out to the Earth from a position which is not near the Earth. So we are actually able to stand back and look at the storm coming from a distance. We want to really start building a space weather forecast from this. Just studying one event doesn't tell you very much about the Sun's behavior in general. What we want to know about is, okay, we understand maybe in detail one event, but what does it do for the next 200 times? Is it the same? Does it change? Does it get progressively more active as the sun gets active? Do they get progressively weaker? Do they get faster? Do they get slower? Do they go off in a particular direction? All these questions need you to have lots of numbers, and we need as many numbers as we possibly can.

TEAM

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Royal Observatory Greenwich

Project team page http://www.solarstormwatch.com/mission briefing Leader: Chris Davis Institution: STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Partner institutions: Royal Observatory Greenwich, Zooniverse Contact: http://www.solarstormwatch.com/talk about it

USER TASKS

CONTRIBUTION TYPE: data analysis, data interpretation
PARTICIPATION TYPOLOGY:

GAMING GENRE NONE
GAMING ELEMENTS: NONE

COMPUTING

THINKING

SENSING

GAMING

◉ Tasks description

⤯ Interaction with objects Play video, mark beginning and ending of storms, mark extent of storm across camera. ▣ Interface

* Data type to manipulate: pictures

* interface enjoyment: somewhat cool/attractive

* Interface usability: rather easy to use

GUIDANCE

GUIDANCE

* Tutorial: ✓
* Peer to peer guidance: x
* Training sequence: x

FEEDBACK ON

* Individual performance: ✓
* Collective performance: Somewhat
* Research progress: Somewhat

❂ Feedback and guidance description

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY TOOLS

* Communication: blog, forum

* Social Network: Twitter, other
* Member profiles:: minimal
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NEWS & EVENTS

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* Frequency of project news updates: N/A
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⏣ Community description

* Community size (volounteers based)
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Other information

#### PROJECT[edit source]

Url:http://www.solarstormwatch.com/
Start date:
End date:
Infrastructure: Zooniverse

#### TEAM[edit source]

Official team page:http://www.solarstormwatch.com/mission_briefing
Leader: Chris Davis
Institution: STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Partner institutions: Royal Observatory Greenwich, Zooniverse
Contact: http://www.solarstormwatch.com/talk_about_it
Main location: Royal Observatory Greenwich

## PROJECT DEFINITION[edit source]

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### Subject[edit source]

Natural sciences > astronomy, astrophyics (space)

### Description[edit source]

Explore interactive diagrams to learn about the Sun and the spacecraft monitoring it. The STEREO spacecraft is scientists’ latest mission to study the Sun and space weather – not clouds and rain, but how solar storms change conditions in space and on Earth.

### Purpose.[edit source]

The reason that we want lots of people doing this is because that takes away the subjectivity. If we have a consensus view of what a CME looks like and which way it's going then you can be much more confident about that answer being correct.

### Research question.[edit source]

The STEREO Mission itself has several big questions that it’s trying to answer. We know that the Sun kicks out these vast solar storms. Each one of these storms is a billion tons of material traveling at a million miles an hour, so they’re not inconsequential. But nobody quite knows why they happen, what causes them to be triggered. For the first time with STEREO, we are actually being able to track these storms continuously all the way from the Sun right out to the Earth from a position which is not near the Earth. So we are actually able to stand back and look at the storm coming from a distance. We want to really start building a space weather forecast from this. Just studying one event doesn't tell you very much about the Sun's behavior in general. What we want to know about is, okay, we understand maybe in detail one event, but what does it do for the next 200 times? Is it the same? Does it change? Does it get progressively more active as the sun gets active? Do they get progressively weaker? Do they get faster? Do they get slower? Do they go off in a particular direction? All these questions need you to have lots of numbers, and we need as many numbers as we possibly can.

## ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS[edit source]

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### Interaction with system objects.[edit source]

Play video, mark beginning and ending of storms, mark extent of storm across camera.

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Computing: | NO | Thinking: | NO
Sensing: | NO | Gaming: | NO
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Participatory science | ☐ | Extreme citizen science | ☐
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Data analysis | ☐
Data interpretation | ☐\

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Gaming
Genre: | Gaming elements: achievements, reward batches
Interface
Data type to manipulate: pictures | interface enjoyment: somewhat cool/attractive
Interface usability: rather easy to use | Member profiles::minimal
Member profile elements:

## ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK[edit source]

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Guidance | Feedback on

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| Tutorial and documentation: | YES

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Training sequence: | NO
Peer to peer guidance: | NO
| individual performance: | YES

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collective performance: | Somewhat
research progress: | Somewhat

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## COMMUNITY[edit source]

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Tools | News & Events

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Communication: blog, forum
Social Network: Twitter, other

Main news site:
Frequency of project news updates: N/A
Type of events:
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Community description

Community size (volounteers based):
Role: Interaction form:
Has official community manager(s): N/A
Has team work N/A

Other information about community:
Community led additions:

## OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION[edit source]

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http://www.solarstormwatch.com/mission briefing

Royal Observatory Greenwich http://www.solarstormwatch.com/talk about it

No astronomy, astrophyics Natural sciences space The reason that we want lots of people doing this is because that takes away the subjectivity. If we have a consensus view of what a CME looks like and which way it's going then you can be much more confident about that answer being correct. The STEREO Mission itself has several big questions that it’s trying to answer. We know that the Sun kicks out these vast solar storms. Each one of these storms is a billion tons of material traveling at a million miles an hour, so they’re not inconsequential. But nobody quite knows why they happen, what causes them to be triggered. For the first time with STEREO, we are actually being able to track these storms continuously all the way from the Sun right out to the Earth from a position which is not near the Earth. So we are actually able to stand back and look at the storm coming from a distance. We want to really start building a space weather forecast from this. Just studying one event doesn't tell you very much about the Sun's behavior in general. What we want to know about is, okay, we understand maybe in detail one event, but what does it do for the next 200 times? Is it the same? Does it change? Does it get progressively more active as the sun gets active? Do they get progressively weaker? Do they get faster? Do they get slower? Do they go off in a particular direction? All these questions need you to have lots of numbers, and we need as many numbers as we possibly can.

Solar Stormwatch

data analysis, data interpretation

pictures, other: Thinking: no Computing: no Sensing: no Gaming: no achievements, reward batches

Play video, mark beginning and ending of storms, mark extent of storm across camera. somewhat cool/attractive rather easy to use yes no no yes N/A N/A

minimal

N/A blog, forum Twitter, other

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