exploration of mars
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Terraforming Mars Publisher Calls AI ‘Too Powerful’ Not to Use
Throughout the year, there’s been ongoing concerns about the use of generative AI across various forms of entertainment such as film and TV. Every industry has their own stance on the matter, and in the case of tabletop games, it’s quite divisive: some in the industry have put restrictions on AI-made products, while others have…
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Just Won’t Quit, Resuming Flights After an Untimely Landing
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has had a rough few months, first losing communication with its home planet and later suffering a glitch that interrupted its flight. But you can’t keep a good chopper down. Ingenuity soared above the Martian terrain once again as its team on Earth tries to figure out what went wrong with its…
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Four Volunteers Have Locked Themselves in a Simulated Martian Habitat for a Year
On Sunday, four researchers donned black jumpsuits and entered into a red world where they will spend a year living and working in a simulated Martian environment. NASA’s CHAPEA habitat, or Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analogue, welcomed its volunteer guests this week, who are set to spend 378 days in the enclosed, Mars-like world…
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Rover Gathers Rocks From Active Volcano During Simulated Moon Mission
While working out of a hotel room in Italy, astronaut Thomas Reiter commanded a four-wheeled robot to pick up rocks from the surface of an active volcano on the Sicilian east coast, and he did so while role-playing as though he were in orbit around the Moon.