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Submission + - Europa Selected as Target of Next Flagship Mission (nasa.gov)

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volcanopele

on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @04:23PM

volcanopele writes: "NASA and the European Space Agency announced today that they have selected the Europa/Jupiter System Mission as the next large mission to the outer solar system. For the last year, the Europa mission has been in competition with a proposal to send a mission to Saturn's moon Titan, as reported on Slashdot earlier.

The Europa Mission includes two orbiters: one developed by NASA to orbit the icy moon Europa and another developed by ESA to orbit the solar system's largest moon, Ganymede. Both orbiters would spend up to 2.5 years in orbit around Jupiter before settling into orbit around their respective targets, studying Jupiter's satellites, rings, and of course the planet itself. The mission is scheduled to launch in 2020 and arrive at Jupiter in 2025 and 2026."

Face-Swapping Software To Protect Privacy 85

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 31, 2008 @06:14PM from the so-long-as-we-can-choose-the-swappees dept.

(0d0 writes "Some researchers at Columbia University's Computer Vision Labratory have developed software to automatically replace faces in batches of photos. Practical applications include protecting the identities of people in Google's Street View, coupling it with a digital camera's burst mode to create a perfect group photo, or protecting the identities of witnesses or law enforcement and military personnel. Other links to coverage include Boing Boing, American Public Media, and New Scientist."

NASA Announces Water Found On Mars 281

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 31, 2008 @05:24PM from the so-val-kilmer-can-breathe-easy dept.

s.bots writes "Straight from the horse's mouth, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has identified water in a soil sample. Hopefully this exciting news will boost interest in the space program and further exploration of the Martian surface." Clearly, this has long been suspected, but now Martian water's been (in the words of William Boynton, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer) "touched and tasted."

Comment Tracking insects (Score 1) 276

by ursg on Friday September 23, 2005 @06:19AM (#13627947) Attached to: The Quintessential Sentry Gun

I wonder... would it be possible to build an automatic insect-tracking sensor using an array of microphoness, that automatically classifies insects by their sound-spectrum and locates them within the room by calculating their position from the phase-differences?

The Algorithms would be essentially the same as the ones used for nautical sonar tracking (of which a Free implementation exists). So all I'd need would be a strong Laser on an automatic turret. Or whatever I like to shoot at them litte bastards.

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