Some time in the next month NASA plans to remotely upgrade the software on the Mars rovers "to make 'intelligent' decisions in the study of Martian clouds and dust devils. Since they can take more pictures than they can send to Earth, NASA plans to teach them to analyze the photos to pick only the most interesting ones to send. "Clouds typically occur in 8-20% of the data collected right now." I sure hope their QA is good.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Mars Robots Software Upgrade
Some time in the next month NASA plans to remotely upgrade the software on the Mars rovers "to make 'intelligent' decisions in the study of Martian clouds and dust devils. Since they can take more pictures than they can send to Earth, NASA plans to teach them to analyze the photos to pick only the most interesting ones to send. "Clouds typically occur in 8-20% of the data collected right now." I sure hope their QA is good.
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