Help Search for Fossett from Your Computer

You can join the search for NESA President Steve Fossett by using your computer to study recent satellite images of the area where the adventurer disappeared September 3.

To sign up to help, visit www.mturk.com and follow the instructions and text link near the top of the page. The site requests volunteers age 18 or older. After registering, the Web site will assign you an image of a 278-foot-square section of the 6,000 square miles being searched in Nevada.

After studying the image, you simply click “yes” or “no” as to whether there is any sign of Fossett’s airplane that might warrant further investigation in that section. Anything larger than two or three feet will appear in the image, and instructions and examples help you better determine what you are viewing.  

The flagged images are passed to the search team coordinating the flights over the area.