NASA’s Earth Observatory website has decided to join in on the bracketology fever that overtakes many US citizens during the month of March … but with science and not basketball. Instead of March Madness, it’s EARTH MADNESS! From March 4 through April 5, Earth Observatory fans can vote for their favorite images of the year. There are thirty-two images vying for the title, but only one can be the winner. This will be a head-to-head competition, whittling the total from 32 to 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 in a tournament of remote sensing science. The competition will be stiff in the four brackets — Earth at Night, Events, Data, and True-Color — so it is up to you to separate the winners from the losers. Check back each week to vote in the next round and help choose a winner.
Print a copy of the bracket, fill it out, and get that workplace pool going. Come back every Monday to vote and watch the results.
I’m still trying to figure out how a picture of the sun is one of “the best Earth images of the year”.
Hmm, do i see a topic interwoven into the images? If I remove any image representing that topic + the lights at night topic …. there are about 7 images left choose from, depending interpretation of an image (California = wild fires = ?)
Oh well …