Jovian Vortex Hunter is complete!

The Jovian Vortex Hunter (JVH), which was launched on June 20, 2022 on the Zooniverse platform, and completed on Dec 23, 2023! We had more than 6000 registered volunteers performing more than a million classifications on 68000 images. I would like to thank every single volunteer who participated in this project! It has been a … Continue reading Jovian Vortex Hunter is complete!

Introducing JuDE: the JunoCam Data Explorer

Today, we are launching a web-based companion application to the Jovian Vortex Hunter project: https://jude.zooniverse.org. JuDE is an app to explore the subject metadata associated with the Zooniverse project, and has two main aspects: The Subject page The primary purpose of the subject page is to get more context about a subject. Given the small … Continue reading Introducing JuDE: the JunoCam Data Explorer

Tales from the analysis pipeline: creating a catalog of vortices

The Jovian Vortex Hunter project is going strong, with over half a million classifications, so it's a good time to talk about the science goals of the project. I want to thank all the volunteers who are on the project for helping with the classifications and Talk boards! One of the main goals of this … Continue reading Tales from the analysis pipeline: creating a catalog of vortices

First analysis from the Jovian Vortex Hunter project!

Volunteers on the Jovian Vortex Hunter Zooniverse project are going through the data at an incredible pace! As of the publication of this post, there have been about 280,000 classifications with over 27,000 images retired from the first workflow (i.e. marked as completed). At this rate, we will have identified vortices in our 68,000 images … Continue reading First analysis from the Jovian Vortex Hunter project!

Jovian Vortex Hunters is launching today

Help us create a catalog of cloud features on Jupiter! Today, we are launching the Jovian Vortex Hunter project on Zooniverse.org, aimed at studying the different types of clouds that form on Jupiter, in order to better understand how the atmosphere of the largest planet in Solar System works. Jupiter's atmosphere is a wonderfully diverse … Continue reading Jovian Vortex Hunters is launching today