The Verizon-branded mobile app, coming this fall, gamifies the process of “characterizing” real individual asteroids.
At its core, Apophis 2029 isn’t just a game but a giant crowdsourcing initiative that rests on one important insight—that humans are still better than computers at characterizing asteroids, largely because that process relies on pattern recognition, at which the human eye is adept. Getting people in large numbers to help with that pattern recognition can help NASA understand certain asteroids, and reduce the threat they pose.
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Source: Mcgarrybowen Creates a Mobile Game That Can Defend the Earth Against Real Asteroids | Adweek
