Scientists hope the public's help will have a big impact on research.From The BBC:
The US space agency needs your help to explore Mars.
A Nasa website called "Be A Martian" allows users to play games while at the same time sorting through hundreds of thousands of images of the Red Planet.
The number of pictures returned by spacecraft since the 1960s is now so big that scientists cannot hope to study them all by themselves.
The agency believes that by engaging the public in the analysis as well, many more discoveries will be made.
The new citizen-science website went live on Tuesday at http://BeAMartian.jpl.nasa.gov.
The site is just the latest to use crowdsourcing as a tool to do science.
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