NASA Team Teaches Algorithms to Identify Life If you’ve seen dental plaque or pond scum, you’ve met a biofilm. Among the oldest forms of life on Earth, these ubiquitous, slimy buildups of bacteria grow on nearly everything exposed to moisture and leave behind common tell-tale textures and structures identifying them as living or once-living organisms. Now meet the team of NASA engineers and scientists that launched a pilot project harnessing the power of machine learning to identify textural patterns unique to life. The idea would be to equip a rover with these sophisticated imaging and dat
NASA Team Teaches Algorithms to Identify Life If you’ve seen dental plaque or pond scum, you’ve met a biofilm. Among the oldest forms of life on Earth, these ubiquitous, slimy buildups of bacteria grow on nearly everything exposed to moisture and leave behind common tell-tale textures and structures identifying them as living or once-living organisms. Now meet the team of NASA engineers and scientists that launched a pilot project harnessing the power of machine learning to identify textural patterns unique to life. The idea would be to equip a rover with these sophisticated imaging and data-analysis technologies and allow the instruments to decide in real-time which rocks to sample in the search for life, regardless of how primitive, on the Moon or Mars.
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