Challenges

Be An Earth System Trend Detective!

Find and visualize significant trends in long-running Earth observation data.

• Innovate Inclusion Award

Dancing with the SARs

Track wildfires, glacier movement and wetland loss with NISAR radar data.

Field Shift: Adapting Farms with NASA Data

Help farmers plan crop rotations with a decision tool built on satellite Earth observations.

Harmonization of MODIS and VIIRS Hot Spots

Merge two satellite fire records into a burning-activity calendar for responders and land managers.

• Innovate Inclusion Award

The Earth Information Jukebox

Turn Earth science visualizations into sound to make science more accessible.

• Beginner friendly
• Innovate Inclusion Award

Lunar Landing Site Navigator

Compare lunar south pole landing sites by sunlight and communication windows.

Identify Earth Locations that Analog the Permanent Moon Base Locations and Mars

Find places on Earth that resemble lunar or Martian terrain.

• Beginner friendly
• Innovate Inclusion Award

Interplanetary Survival Guide: Martian Map

Build a layered map that helps astronauts plan a safe Marswalk.

Abandoned but not Forgotten: Storytelling about NASA’s Discarded Equipment on the Moon and Mars

Tell school-age learners the story of the hardware missions left behind on the Moon and Mars.

• Beginner friendly

Create Health Monitoring Software for Astronauts on Space Missions

Help astronauts track and act on their own health during long missions.

Flame in Freefall: SI-Powered Fire Safety Insights from Microgravity Combustion Data

An AI-powered dashboard that turns decades of microgravity fire research into safety insights.

Planet X and SPHEREx

A public web tool that shows how the sky changes over time in SPHEREx images.

Build a Junior Astronaut Mission Trainer

A game where students run a lunar or Martian outpost and balance life support, power and food.

• Beginner friendly

Space Mission Design Game

Design and simulate a complete space mission, from concept to operation.

• Beginner friendly