NASA Space Apps Challenge - A Great Weekend

Over the weekend of 20th & 21st of October, about one hundred people arrived at the Met-Office Headquarters in Exeter, to take part in the biggest global hackathon.

Whilst there were only a hundred people in Exeter, there were many thousands spread across the globe, all taking part simultaneously.
The Exeter participants worked on ten challenges and produced a range of interesting results. Some employed Virtual Reality (VR) to help explore the Moon from data obtained from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Others used existing satellite imagery to identify when new refugee or displaced person encampments begin to set-up so that relief aid can be directed effectively and early enough to provide some help.

There were also the beginnings of new games featuring the images of the Hubble Telescope, another to explore help plan journeys over the remaining Arctic Ice. Even a project to land an autonomous rover and habitat module into the Plato Crater using Algae to replenish and cleanse the air supply in readiness for the first Lunar Explorers to occupy.
All very inventive stuff. All who attended agreed that the weekend was great fun and a great success. For those who are willing to pit their inventive minds to quickly solve a given challenge, it will be good to view the sort of challenges that we faced this year and begin to plan to take part next year.

See https://2018.spaceappschallenge.org for more information and keep checking for announcements to the 2019 challenges.