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THANK YOU for making CLOUD GAZE a successful story. The project has stopped collecting data since 1 December 2022. On 16 December 2022, NASA GLOBE CLOUD GAZE will no longer be a NASA sponsored project. The website will remain open and interactives working for educators. Data Accessible at The GLOBE Program's GLOBE Observer website.
This site is no longer actively updated. The CLOUD GAZE team has set up test datasets within the interactives for educators and teachers to use in their classrooms.
Learn moreWe have two ways to participate: Cloud Cover and What Do You See. "Cloud Cover" focuses on how much of the photograph is covered by clouds. What Do You See?, our second way to participate will then ask you what cloud types are in the photograph as well as other events like dust storms or smoke plumes. Each one is important to the understanding of our atmosphere and our changing climate. We need more classifications in the "What Do You See?" option and we would greatly appreciate your help!
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Satellites are great but they are not perfect! The more details we have of cloud cover and cloud types from the ground looking up, the better we can study our atmosphere.
NASA GLOBE CLOUD GAZEAbout NASA GLOBE CLOUD GAZE
What is NASA GLOBE CLOUD GAZE? The GLOBE Program is NASA's largest and longest lasting citizen science program about the Earth. When you use the program's GLOBE Observer app, you can submit photographs of clouds and sky with your reports.
Sky photographs are one of the most requested portions of a GLOBE Clouds observation. This is because there is so much you can do with them. Photographs give scientists the opportunity to be right there with you. Details within a photograph can be used to compare with satellite data, confirm dust or haze observations, and give insight to unique cloud types like lenticular and noctilucent clouds over the polar regions.
This is how the idea for NASA GLOBE CLOUD GAZE came to be. The project allows you to look at cloud photographs. These photographs were submitted by GLOBE participants through the program’s GLOBE Observer app. It then asks you to identify elements such as the presence or absence of clouds, dust storms, smoke plumes and haze layers.
CLOUD GAZE stands for Community science project Leveraging Online and User Data through GLOBE And Zooniverse Engagement.
This project was made possible by NASA under grant number 80NSSC21K0853, part of the Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program. Find out about other NASA citizen science projects at https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience.
