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Feb 24, 2021
Lockheed Martin Wins Space Contract (NYSE: LMT)
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Lockheed Martin starts the year with a big space contract. January contract awards showed contract value growth compared to previous years.
Feb 23, 2021
Internet sleuths solve secret message on Perseverance rover’s Mars parachute
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: internet, space
Internet sleuths solved it in 6 hours!
NASA hid a secret message on the parachute that landed its Perseverance rover down on the surface of Mars last week.
Feb 23, 2021
How EVE Online and Borderlands 3 merge citizen science and gaming
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: computing, science, space
If we can take just a fraction of the time that’s spent gaming, and make it useful for science, then that’s practically a limitless resource.
The idea of citizen science isn’t a new one. Amateur scientists have been making important discoveries as far back as Ug the Neolithic hunter and her ‘wheel’, while even Newton, Franklin, and Darwin were self-funded for part of their careers, and Herschel discovered Uranus while employed as a musician. It’s only from the late 20th century that it’s crystallised into what we know today, with the North American Butterfly Association using its members to count the popular winged insects since 1975. Zooniverse has users classify images to identify stellar wind bubbles, track coronal mass ejections, and determine the shape of galaxies. Then there’s Folding@Home and other cloud computing projects—they count too.
Feb 23, 2021
Introducing This Band Isn’t Real, a metal band name generator that uses artificial intelligence
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: robotics/AI, space
Band names often come about in weird and wonderful ways. Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler named the band after a Boris Karloff horror flick, while Led Zeppelin took inspiration from a prediction about how the group might fare (Keith Moon apparently said they’d go down “like a lead balloon”). And then there’s Nickelback, excitingly named after a tradition in which singer Chad Kroeger – then a Starbucks employee – would give his customers a “nickel back” in change.
Sometimes finding the inspiration that will define your band isn’t always such a natural process. Step in This Band Isn’t Real, a Twitter account that generates fake band names and fake album titles via artificial intelligence. It even generates the appropriate artwork.
Feb 23, 2021
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red Planet Program
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
The agency’s newest rover captured first-of-its kind footage of its Feb. 18 touchdown and has recorded audio of Martian wind.
Feb 22, 2021
Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)
Posted by Teresa Lynn in category: space
NASA shares Perseverance Rover landing on Mars.
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 182021. The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover’s entry, descent, and landing suite. The views include a camera looking down from the spacecraft’s descent stage (a kind of rocket-powered jet pack that helps fly the rover to its landing site), a camera on the rover looking up at the descent stage, a camera on the top of the aeroshell (a capsule protecting the rover) looking up at that parachute, and a camera on the bottom of the rover looking down at the Martian surface.
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Feb 22, 2021
Mars Is Radiating Gravity Waves, Which Is Bad News For Human Settlers
Posted by Brent Ellman in category: space
Feb 22, 2021
Real Footage of the Perseverance Rover Landing on Mars Will Give You goosebumps!
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
Feb 22, 2021
NASA reveals video of Perseverance landing
Posted by Future Timeline in category: space
NASA today revealed thrilling footage of its Perseverance rover landing in Mars’ Jezero Crater on 18th February 2021.