{"id":192284,"date":"2024-07-03T18:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-ai-program-helps-identify-elusive-space-plasmoids"},"modified":"2024-07-03T18:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:26:29","slug":"new-ai-program-helps-identify-elusive-space-plasmoids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-ai-program-helps-identify-elusive-space-plasmoids","title":{"rendered":"New AI program helps identify elusive space plasmoids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ai-program-helps-identify-elusive-space-plasmoids2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an ongoing game of cosmic hide and seek, scientists have a new tool that may give them an edge. Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a computer program incorporating machine learning that could help identify blobs of plasma in outer space known as plasmoids. In a novel twist, the program has been trained using simulated data.<\/p>\n<p>The program will sift through reams of data gathered by spacecraft in the magnetosphere, the region of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/outer+space\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">outer space<\/a> strongly affected by Earth\u2019s magnetic field, and flag telltale signs of the elusive blobs. Using this technique, scientists hope to learn more about the processes governing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+reconnection\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic reconnection<\/a>, a process that occurs in the magnetosphere and throughout the universe that can damage communications satellites and the electrical grid.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe that machine learning could improve plasmoid-finding capability, aid the basic understanding of magnetic reconnection and allow researchers to better prepare for the aftermath of reconnection-caused disturbances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an ongoing game of cosmic hide and seek, scientists have a new tool that may give them an edge. Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a computer program incorporating machine learning that could help identify blobs of plasma in outer space known as plasmoids. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}