NASA launches coding competition to organize solar eclipse images
NASA Space Technology The sun's corona and solar flares appear during totality of the eclipse on April 8, 2024, in Indianapolis, Indiana. On Tuesday, NASA's Eclipse Megamovie project announced a coding competition to organize eclipse images from more than 145 citizen scientists. File Photo by Edwin Locke/UPI | License PhotoOct. 15 (UPI) -- NASA is launching a coding competition to get some much-needed help with organizing images from April's solar eclipse for the 2024 Eclipse Megamovie project."Thanks to the efforts of over 145 citizen scientists, more than 1 terabyte of photographs were collected and are now being analyzed," NASA said. "These images will help scientists track disappearing jets and plumes, shedding light on how these solar events impact space weather and our understanding of the sun's outer atmosphere."The Eclipse Megamovie project asked volunteers to...