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MoonDiff: A Web Application Enabling Crowdsourced Comparisons Between Old and New Lunar Imagery

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Overview

This software harnesses the online community to find changes on the lunar surface, including new impact craters and spacecraft hardware. Citizen scientists are presented with pairs of old and new lunar orbital imagery in the form of web maps. The interface allows them to mark changes they observe and submit those to a database for review by experts, which is also done within the same web application