Comet Book vs DISCS

The Comet Book app clearly shows when Comets can be viewed and in which direction. The direction and elevation of a Comet can change noticeably in a day due to its fast apparent motion. The moon and a bright planet may be convenient as a guide to find the comet though they have large apparent motion, too. This app determines where Comet is in the sky when it becomes visible at your observing site. You can easily start your observation of a Comet by using Comet Book as a guide to the direction and elevation of the comet. In addition, the new “3D Solar System seen from Space” mode allows you to view the motion of Comets and planets turning around the sun. Please take a look the comet’s movement around our solar system.

The smartphone app “Drought Information Supported by Citizen Scientists” (DISCS) was created by researchers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to facilitate the sharing and delivery of hydrologic and agricultural information from citizen scientists to the scientific community and partners involved in the monitoring of drought conditions. Users, as Citizen Scientists, are encouraged to contribute photos of local crop conditions along with information about crop type, crop health, soil moisture conditions, and other notes about drought impacts. In exchange, users of the app can observe their reports alongside reports of other Citizen Scientists, and view their information in the context of drought information from the U.S. Drought Monitor, recent rainfall data from NOAA, soil moisture information from ground sensors or through NASA modeling approaches, and view information about vegetation health and stress as observed from NASA’s constellation of satellites.