Note:
they do cite

A. Mereta, D. Izzo, and A. Wittig, "Machine learning of optimal low-thrust transfers between near-Earth objects", 2017

and

D. Izzo, C. I. Sprague, and D. V. Tailor, "Machine learning and evolutionary techniques in interplanetarytrajectory design", 2019.

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

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.

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

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

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."