{"id":28238,"date":"2016-07-24T22:17:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T05:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/ai-nasas-curiosity-rover-can-now-choose-its-own-laser-targets-on-mars"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:29:20","slug":"ai-nasas-curiosity-rover-can-now-choose-its-own-laser-targets-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/ai-nasas-curiosity-rover-can-now-choose-its-own-laser-targets-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"AI: NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover can now choose its own laser targets on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-nasas-curiosity-rover-can-now-choose-its-own-laser-targets-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Who\u2019s calling the shots now? After nearly four years on the job, NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover is finally making certain scientific decisions on its own. The Martian explorer now picks some of the rock targets to blast with the laser on its ChemCam instrument.<\/p>\n<p>A software upgrade known as AEGIS allows the rover to make key decisions when Mars is out of sync with Curiosity\u2019s handlers at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, delivering more data in less time. It\u2019s the first time a robot has been able to choose such science targets autonomously on any planetary mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime on Mars is valuable and we get more data this way and we get the data much faster,\u201d said AEGIS team member Raymond Francis, a scientific applications software engineer at JPL.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-mars-curiosity-autonomous-20160722-snap-story.html\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-mars-curios...story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. Who\u2019s calling the shots now? After nearly four years on the job, NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover is finally making certain scientific decisions on its own. The Martian explorer now picks some of the rock targets to blast with the laser on its ChemCam instrument. A software upgrade known as AEGIS allows the rover to make [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56779,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238\/revisions\/56779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}