What if you could spend a weekend creating a map to help future astronauts explore Mars using NASAโs open data?
NASA Space Apps has 14 challenges to choose from, ranging from Beginner/Youth to Advanced, so you can find one that suits your experience and how ambitious you want to get over the weekend.
๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ: ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฝ (Intermediate) asks you to bring together data from multiple NASA missions to map a location or route on Mars.
If youโd rather work with sound, ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ต ๐๐ป๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ผ๐
(Beginner/Youth, Intermediate) invites you to pair NASAโs Earth visualizations with sounds generated in real time, giving people another way to explore our changing planet.
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(Advanced), you could build a web tool that lets anyone explore images of the sky from NASAโs SPHEREx mission and see how they change over time.
These are just three of the 14 challenges you can take on this year.
Explore all the summaries on the NASA Space Apps website and choose the one that interests you most: https://lnkd.in/g9vDmPPm
FNASA Space Apps Challenge returns to Romania on November 14โ15, 2026, bringing 48 hours of ideas, collaboration and problem-solving to Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca. ๐
This yearโs theme, โThe Next Frontier,โ invites participants to use NASAโs open data and develop solutions to real challenges on Earth and in space.
You can contribute through science, technology, data, design, communication or storytelling.
Choose your local event:
๐ Bucharest | Romanian-American University
๐ Cluj-Napoca | ClujHub
Organized by the Romanian Tech Startups Association (ROTSA) & DiFine PR
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November 14โ15, 2026
๐๏ธ Participation is free, but registration is required.
