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How machine learning helps scientists track asteroids
You never know how far your #SpaceApps solution will go! Gema knows that first hand. Hear about her project Deep Asteroid, which was a 2016 finalist, and how she used NASA data and the open-source tool Tensor Flow.
When NASA issued a worldwide challenge to help them better track the asteroids and comets that surround Earth, Gema Parreño answered the call. She used #TensorFlow, Google’s machine learning tool, to create a program called Deep Asteroid, which helps identify and track Near Earth Objects.
Special thanks to the Royal Observatory of Madrid. Learn more about them here: https://www.esmadrid.com/en/tourist-information/real-observa…gle.com%2F
Watch the next video in the series here: https://youtu.be/watch?v=kBxb-bIJPtw
ESA team blasts Intel’s new AI chip with radiation at CERN
An ESA-led team subjected Intel’s new Myriad 2 artificial intelligence chip to one of the most energetic radiation beams available on Earth. This test of its suitability to fly in space took place at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The AI chip is related in turn to an ESA-fostered family of integrated circuits.
Hello Mars, Farewell Mars
Not only did NASA’s Insight probe make it down to the surface of Mars, but part of the support system for the mission took their first, and last, close up peek at the red planet. https://bit.ly/2UgwmHY&h=AT1M4EEI8SBcHDGIg7qDLpkauTEHcWZ6QCn…HKZoQvgkWA
As NASA’s InSight mission lands on Mars, its companions sail onward.
- By Caleb A. Scharf on November 26, 2018
NASA spacecraft meets with asteroid today
Over the next year, OSIRIS-REx will survey the asteroid using five scientific instruments on board the spacecraft. These instruments will help it determine a safe location from which to collect a small sample from Bennu’s surface that will be returned to Earth in September 2023.
“Bennu’s low gravity provides a unique challenge for the mission,” said Rich Burns, OSIRIS-REx project manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “At roughly 0.3 mile in diameter, Bennu will be the smallest object that any spacecraft has ever orbited.”
Watch Live: NASA OSIRIS-REx Arrives at Asteroid Bennu
The space rock could hold clues to the origins of our solar system, and maybe even life on Earth.
