MoonZoo and Moonbots

There are some very cool opportunities available to participate in lunar exploration and development today. Below, I present to you two such opportunities:

Moonbots (Last Date for Registration: May 15, 2010)

Moonbots is a multi-stage competition for students as young as 9 years old. The competition is open to an international audience and does not strictly require a school group. You can also be a group of neighbours, boy scouts, go to same classes etc. But, the competition does require at least one person for adult supervision. The competition expects participants to complete the challenges of the Google Lunar X Prize using Legos.

The programme is a joint venture of Google Lunar X Prize and Lego. Please do visit the Moonbots website to learn more and participate!

MoonZoo

The Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter (LRO) has sent several high quality images back to Earth. Some of this data was recently released to the NASA's Planetary Database System. MoonZoo picks up data from the Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter Camera (LROC) and encourages everyone to help Lunar Science!

Please do go through the amazing tutorial section and then get started either in the Crater Survey or Boulder Wars section. They have put images that humans can work on better than computers and are using human power to explore the lunar surface.

Some Moon Society, India members have already started participating!