Earth's irregular natural satellites (NES) that are temporarily captured from the near-Earth-object (NEO) population. --> Possibly interesting for NEO exploration?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3781
I've seen someone suggest it could have been a rock that ended up inside the parachute bag when it was folded, and then fell when the parachute was deployed.
Although that's not technically correct. The networks don't actually generate the images, rather the features that get triggered in the network already get amplified through some heuristic. Still fun tho`
Yes, true for the later images, but for the first images they start with random noise and a 'natural image' prior, no?
But I guess calling it "hallucinating" might have been more accurate ;)
WISE is discovering near-Earth asteroids that are on average larger than what's found by existing telescopes, which should help scientists better calculate their potential threat
At a workshop last month in Washington, D.C., NASA canvassed the scientific, human spaceflight and planetary defense communities about their priorities for a mission to a near-Earth asteroid.
an asteroid mission is possible as early as 2019 using a pair of enhanced Orion spacecraft with a two-person crew.
November 2019 and spend three months flying more than 7 million miles to an asteroid that's about 33 feet across.
Damn I should have thought about it before!!! Just launch anything that manages to hit Apophis and the title of the Redeemer of the World is yours!!! Howdys to our Comrades for the idea!
he panel finds the 2005 order to find 90% of Earth-threatening asteroids 460 feet or larger infeasible,
No method for diverting asteroids has been experimentally demonstrated
Options include a "gravity tractor" orbiting slow-moving objects and tugging them off course with tidal tugs, a "kinetic" impact of a heavy spacecraft into an asteroid, or a nuclear explosion