AI-Driven Space Sampling Tech Designed to Pick on Saturn’s Rings Gets NASA Funding

AI-Driven Space Sampling Tech Designed to Pick on Saturn’s Rings Gets NASA Funding

Centuries ago, way back in the 1600s, humanity discovered to its astonishment that one of the giants of our solar system, Saturn, was surrounded by a beautiful ring system. Since that time, we have learned that three other planets, Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune, display a similar feature, albeit far less spectacular. So, we’ve known about rings for centuries now, yet, with the exception of the Cassini spacecraft of the late 199... (continue read…

NASA has provided some early-stage funding to explore the id...

NASA has provided some early-stage funding to explore the idea of releasing a swarm of tiny probes (weighing only a few grams each) into Saturn’s rings to study them up close.