{"id":240098,"date":"2026-07-01T10:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/in-a-first-for-science-a-satellite-has-identified-what-its-seeing-from-space"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:06:01","slug":"in-a-first-for-science-a-satellite-has-identified-what-its-seeing-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/in-a-first-for-science-a-satellite-has-identified-what-its-seeing-from-space","title":{"rendered":"In a First For Science, A Satellite Has Identified What It\u2019s Seeing From Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-first-for-science-a-satellite-has-identified-what-its-seeing-from-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The standard approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/striking-satellite-images-reveal-antarctica-is-10-times-greener-than-35-years-ago\">satellite imagery<\/a> is to snap huge batches of pictures and beam them back to Earth, where they can be sifted through by human operators and the best available algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all worked well so far, but the time, transmission bandwidth, and energy required are starting to become bottlenecks. Modern satellites are simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ai-combed-millions-of-images-of-the-arctic-it-found-an-alarming-pattern\">capturing more pixels<\/a> than scientists have time to look at.<\/p>\n<p>However, the YAM-9 satellite has just done something different: It has identified and described features in its image scans without needing to check back with ground control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The standard approach to satellite imagery is to snap huge batches of pictures and beam them back to Earth, where they can be sifted through by human operators and the best available algorithms. It\u2019s all worked well so far, but the time, transmission bandwidth, and energy required are starting to become bottlenecks. Modern satellites are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,41,2028,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-information-science","category-satellites","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240098","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}