American scientists want to use online volunteers to look for signs of alein life in moon images collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, an article in the Acta Astronautica journal said.
“Although there is only a tiny probability that alien technology would have left traces on the moon in the form of an artefact or surface modification of lunar features, this location has the virtue of being close, and of preserving traces for an immense duration," Paul Davies and Robert Wagner from Arizona State University wrote.
LRO has taken photographs of a quarter of the moon’s surface in high-resolution since 2009. The collection amounts to some 340,000 images of the moon and the number is growing all the time.
Davies and Wagner said that to study and scan all these images could not be done by even large scientific teams. They proposed two ways of solving this problem.
One way is to write software to search for strange-looking features and the second is to send amateur enthusiasts images over the internet to have them search for artefacts that might have been left by aliens as signs to other intelligent beings.
