Editor’s note: NASA currently has two droids at work on Mars: Perseverance and its Older sibling Curiosity. Their common task is to perform astrobiology and astrogeology exploration activities on Mars. […]
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Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Exploration Gear & Tech, Mars, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs
NASA Tests Future Mars Droids In Death Valley
Next-generation drone flight software is just one of 25 technologies for the Red Planet that the space agency funded for development this year.
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Exploration Gear & Tech, Missions & Hardware, Nanotechnology & SynBio, Status Report, Tricorders & Sensors
Tricorder Tech: NASA’s Software Catalog
NASA’s latest open Software Catalog, released Wednesday, offers more than 1,200 downloadable codes developed by agency engineers that could enable faster solutions to energize the space economy and stimulate American […]
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Reasons To Register Your Software With The Astrophysics Source Code Library
This presentation covered the benefits of registering astronomy research software with the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL, https://ascl.net/ ), a free online registry for software used in astronomy research.
![Focal planes produced by ExoSim 2 for the Ariel VISPhot channel using two different PSFs. The focal plane array size is 64 × 64 pixels, oversampled by a factor of 3. Both panels are presented in decibels ([dB]) units to highlight the PSF side lobes. The left panel shows the effective PSF using an Airy function, which is cropped to the 8th zero. The right panel presents the effective PSF using a PAOS-simulated PSF as input, including aberrations and a defocusing of 200 nm root mean square (RMS) on the wavefront. -- astro-ph.IM](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ExoSim-2-The-New-Exoplanet.png?resize=1200%2C721&ssl=1)
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Ariel Mission, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report
ExoSim 2: The New Exoplanet Observation Simulator Applied to the Ariel Space Mission
ExoSim 2 is the next generation of the Exoplanet Observation Simulator (ExoSim) tailored for spectro-photometric observations of transiting exoplanets from space, ground, and sub-orbital platforms.
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Apps - Games, Astrochemistry, Astronomy & Telescopes, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report
Database Design for SpExoDisks: A Database & Web Portal for Spectra of Exoplanet-Forming Disks
Data access — or the availability of new and archival data for use by the larger community — is key for scientific advancement.
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Analog Studies, Apps - Games, Away Teams & Field Reports, Enceladus, Europa, Exploration Gear & Tech, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Video, Audio, Webcasts, Podcasts, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
FathomVerse Mobile Game Inspires A New Wave Of Ocean Exploration
Editor’s note: What would be interesting to see is an add-on to this cool MBARI app that allows you to imagine biota in the seas of Europa and Enceladus and […]
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Interstellar, Missions & Hardware, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, Tricorders & Sensors
Interview With CBC About The Voyager 1 Interstellar Software Repair
Editor’s note: I just spoke with CBC News in Ottawa, Canada about the recent software repair conducted from Earth onboard the Voyager 1 interstellar space probe. [Interview Audio]
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Astrobiology (general), Astropharmacy / Biotechnology, Citizen Science / Open Science, Education and Outreach, NASA Astrobiology Program, Status Report
The Astrobiology Habitable Environments Database (AHED) and the Astrobiology Resource Metadata Standard (ARMS): Community-driven Tools For Astrobiological Data
The interdisciplinary nature of astrobiology presents challenges to data management, integration, and analysis because of its great diversity.