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Frontier Development Lab (FDL): AI technologies to space science - 3 views
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Applications might be of interest to some: https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/blog/2019/3/1/application-deadline-extended-cftt4?fbclid=IwAR0gqMsHJCJx5DeoObv0GSESaP6VGjNKnHCPfmzKuvhFLDpkLSrcaCwmY_c
FDL is a public-private partnership with NASA in the USA and ESA in Europe. We work with commercial partners such as NVIDIA, Intel, and Google Cloud, IBM, Lockheed Martin, SpaceResources Luxembourg, KBRWyle, XPrize, Kx, and Miso Technologies who provide expertise and the computing resources necessary for rapid experimentation and iteration in data intensive areas, as well as partners such as the SETI Institute, Satellite Applications Catapult, USC MASCLE, and the University of Oxford. --> https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/about
Engineering a plastic-eating enzyme - 7 views
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http://uopnews.port.ac.uk/2018/04/16/engineering-a-plastic-eating-enzyme/
Scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest some of our most commonly polluting plastics, providing a potential solution to one of the world's biggest environmental problems.
The discovery could result in a recycling solution for millions of tonnes of plastic bottles, made of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, which currently persists for hundreds of years in the environment.
NASA Next Mars Rover Mission: new landing technology - 3 views
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JPL is also developing a crucial new landing technology called terrain-relative navigation. As the descent stage approaches the Martian surface, it will use computer vision to compare the landscape with pre-loaded terrain maps. This technology will guide the descent stage to safe landing sites, correcting its course along the way.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7011
Human settlement project on Mars in 2023 - 4 views
Complexity Analysis of the Viking Labeled Release Experiments - 6 views
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The only extraterrestrial life detection experiments ever conducted were the three which were components of the 1976 Viking Mission to Mars. Of these, only the Labeled Release experiment obtained a clearly positive response. [...] These analyses support the interpretation that the Viking LR experiment did detect extant microbial life on Mars.
APOD: 2012 March 12 - The Scale of the Universe Interactive - 3 views
Gene rejuvenation pours youth into centenarians' cells - 2 views
Smartphone-Controlled Robots Aid Astronauts | NASA SPHERES Droids - 0 views
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"The MIT-built robots will each connect with a Nexus S smartphone - the first commercial smartphone certified by NASA for use on the space shuttle and space station."
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First smartphones control our lives, now they control robots behaviour. Watch out! After all, there must be a good reason for calling it smartphone...
Galaxy collisions not the only source of monster black hole activity | Space | EarthSky - 1 views
Hydrogen peroxide in space suggests water and oxygen, scientists hope. - 4 views
NASA research offers new prospect of water on Mars - 4 views
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NASA scientists are seeing new evidence that suggests traces of water on Mars are under a thin varnish of iron oxide, or rust, similar to conditions found on desert rocks in California's Mojave Desert.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-nasa-prospect-mars.html
Observation : this month, four planets aligned in the early morning sky. - 9 views
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This month, some 30 minutes before the sunrise, look to the East, and if the sky is not too cloudy you will see Mercure, Venus, Mars and Jupiter very close, so close that it will be possible to hide them with an outstretched hand.
This will be happening from May the 11th and during the whole month, just changing the shape of this four planets group.
On May the 13th for example, Mercure, Venus and Jupiter are expected to form a nearly perfect equilateral triangle.
Geometrical lesson before breakfast!
Advice for the observation : Mars might be no so shiny as the other ones. Maybe It will be necesarry to use binoculars.
The phenomene will end on May the 30th, when the Moon will join the other planets : 5 celestial points in the East sky.
So, as Gandalf the White said : "look to [their] coming on the first light of the day, at dawn, look to the east."
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they do cite
A. Mereta, D. Izzo, and A. Wittig, "Machine learning of optimal low-thrust transfers between near-Earth objects", 2017
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D. Izzo, C. I. Sprague, and D. V. Tailor, "Machine learning and evolutionary techniques in interplanetarytrajectory design", 2019.