NASA recently announced some changes that appear aligned with Ignition initiatives. Here are few of them.
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The AI Upgrade Helping Perseverance Work Smarter on Mars
The rover’s On Board Planner software uses artificial intelligence to reduce wasted time and energy by making on-the-spot scheduling decisions.
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Twin Spacecraft Ready to Head for a Martian Escapade
A pair of probes have taken a circuitous path to Mars but are now ready to leave their “loiter” orbit for a 10-month cruise to the Red Planet.
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InSight into Seismology on the Red Planet
Viking 2 detected two possible marsquakes in 1976. New analysis links one to the same region where InSight recorded nearly 1,000 marsquakes decades later.
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What We Could Lose by Trying to Make Mars Habitable
The rock, ice, and atmosphere of Mars hold a largely unread archive. Terraforming could erase it before the biggest scientific questions are answered.
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Getting to Know Uranus’s “Breathing” Bow Shock
The ice giant’s rotation causes daily expansion and contraction of the boundary where its magnetic field slows the solar wind.
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Io’s Hidden Heat Revealed for the First Time
Data from the Juno spacecraft also suggest that Jupiter’s moon has a relatively smooth, low-density surface.
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Reconnecting to the Lunar Trailblazer with Light
Learning from the attempted rescue of the Lunar Trailblazer: how ground-based optical observations and laboratory measurements can improve recovery of the attitude of a spacecraft lost in space.