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NASA’s Online Game Can Help Save the Coral Reefs — and Your Boredom During Quarantine – Travel + Leisure
Move over, Animal Crossing.
NASA is calling on gamers to help map and explore the world’s coral reefs.
In the game, NASA NeMO-Net, players can can help train a NASA supercomputer to learn more about the ocean floor, with the help of real NASA data to identify and classify corals. Players can move across the ocean in their own research vessel, called the Nautilus, picking up and sorting the coral they find as they move.
While each “at-home researcher” is collecting information, NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer learns from th…
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