A small team of citizen scientists developed a tool called WISE View, using images from NASA’s WISE (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission, to easily stitch together images into animations. A larger group of volunteers then used those animations to find moving objects. “They’ve made the project more efficient for everyone else,” Kirkpatrick said. (WISE’s mission ended in 2011, but the spacecraft was reactivated with the name NEOWISE in 2013, focusing its survey on near-Earth objects).
