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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.

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How CERN is using enterprise asset management from Infor and ramping up the automation of its IT services to plumb the depths of the universe.

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.

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

Astronaut Alexander Gerst captured incredible photographs of the launch of his new companions to the International Space Station.

“Welcome to space, David, Anne and Oleg!” Docking is set for 17:36 GMT (18:36 CET).

“Welcome to space, David, Anne and Oleg!”

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.”

The space rock could hold clues to the origins of our solar system, and maybe even life on Earth.