Bored at home? This game lets you help NASA map the world’s coral reefs – April 16, 2020 at 02:59PM

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We’ve mapped less than 10% of the ocean floor. Now you can help bring that number up.

If you’re looking for something more interesting to do in quarantine than restream a show on Netflix, consider helping scientists map the world’s coral reefs. In a new video game from NASA called NeMO-Net, you can virtually dive in waters around the world, classifying corals in 3D images from satellites to help train a NASA supercomputer to map the rest of the world’s coral at a scale that’s never been done before.

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John Jason Fallows

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