NASA Needs You

If you ever had dreams of working for NASA, here's your big chance. NASA is looking for Internet volunteers to study stardust. OK...the pay really sucks, it's a volunteer job; but you could get to name the particals of stardust that you discover!

Here is a link that explains the Stardust Project. Basically, NASA has captured some stardust particles from a comet and will be returning them to earth for study - that's were you come in. If this were twenty years ago NASA would have hired an army of people to peer through microscopes and study the particles, but now that we have the Internet they plan on using a web-based microscope and volunteers. You will have to pass a test in order to qualify for this opportunity for your fifteen minutes of fame! You will be searching for carrot-shaped trails that have been left in the submicroscobic dust particles. Sound like fun?

(Photo from NASA website)