The Viking missions showcased multiple spaceflight technologies representing state-of-the-art capabilities: from digital line-scan imaging to the operation of complex onboard laboratories and software-controlled process autonomy.
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Tricorder Tech: A Novel AI Algorithm For Analyzing Microfossils
Editor’s note: the two large rovers NASA has in operation on Mars utilize AI – or Machine Learning – both on Earth and in some cases inside a rover itself […]
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Tricorder Tech: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally On Your Phone
Editor’s note: you can never seem to have too much access to data when you are on an Away Team out in the middle of nowhere. The further afield you […]
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Is Artificial Intelligence The Great Filter That Makes Advanced Technical Civilisations Rare In The Universe?
This study examines the hypothesis that the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), culminating in the emergence of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), could act as a “Great Filter” that is responsible […]
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Artificial Intelligence Tools Shed Light On Millions Of Proteins
Editor’s note: life on Earth uses a plethora of proteins. But there are many more proteins – millions – that can exist – many, many more than are used by […]
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Analyze Mass Spectrometry Data With Artificial Intelligence To Assist The Understanding Of Past Habitability Of Mars And Provide Insights For Future Missions
This paper presents an application of artificial intelligence on mass spectrometry data for detecting habitability potential of ancient Mars.
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Developing An AI Method Of Identifying Life On Other Worlds
Humankind is looking for life on other planets, but how will we recognise it when we see it? Now a group of US scientists have developed an artificial-intelligence-based system which […]
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Did Life Exist On Mars? Other Planets? With AI’s Help, We May Know Soon
Scientists have discovered a simple and reliable test for signs of past or present life on other planets – “the holy grail of astrobiology.”
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A Statistical And Machine Learning Approach To The Study Of Astrochemistry
In order to obtain a good understanding of astrochemistry, it is crucial to better understand the key parameters that govern grain-surface chemistry. For many chemical networks, these crucial parameters are […]
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Could AI be the Great Filter? What Astrobiology can Teach the Intelligence Community about Anthropogenic Risks
Where is everybody? This phrase distills the foreboding of what has come to be known as the Fermi Paradox – the disquieting idea that, if extraterrestrial life is probable in […]