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times of malfunction.
To prevent the spacecraft from doing something inadvertently damaging, everything shuts down except those systems that stop it from dying.

Then it waits for commands from controllers on Earth.That’s
where we are with Curiosity forex growth bot are gradually bringing more of its systems on-line using the B-side computer and full operations could be restored by the weekend.
Then the process of understanding more about what happened to the A-side computer begins.A
front-running idea is that the computer memory was corrupted by an incoming cosmic ray.
These are subatomic particles that have been accelerated to extraordinary speeds by distant exploding stars.Cosmic
ray hits are a source of frustration throughout the astronomical community. Just ask the poor graduate student whose job it is to scroll through research images pixel by pixel, digitally removing each hit so it doesn’t foul the data. Failure to do such tedious work may result in the mistaken discovery of a space colony on Mars.However,

the real danger is when a cosmic ray hits a computer memory cell or processor, rather than an image detector. Perfect lines of code can be turned to gobbledegook.Back
in the mid-90s, IBM estimated that cosmic rays would cause one error per month

for every 256MB of RAM in a computer on Earth, sitting under the planet’s protective magnetic field. Without an appreciable magnetic field of its own, Mars is

more exposed. Although Curiosity’s computers are “hardened” to withstand radiation, particularly energetic cosmic rays can sometimes get through.Although
unexpected safe modes can be a sign of real trouble to any mission, this was not the case with Curiosity.
The safe mode was triggered knowingly by engineers when they swapped between computers. It is what is allowing them to bring the rover back to full operation.Think
of it more like the engineers putting the rover in detention while they get to the bottom of its bad behaviour.•
Stuart Clark is the author of The Day Without Yesterday (Polygon)Curiosity roverMarsNasaSpaceAstronomyRobotsStuart Clarkguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Reproductions and jokey reimaginings of Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase” are on view at Francis M.
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How does a bird handle the wind, hanging effortlessly tinnitus miracle by gusts and darting through clusters of trees with seamless precision? Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Professor Russ Tedrake wants to understand how birds can operate under such conditions and create machines that can do the same. His current goal is to develop an aircraft that can fly like a bird, darting through trees and narrowly avoiding obstacles during fast-paced flight. Tedrake and the Robot Locomotion Group, his research group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), recently unveiled a video of a new computer-controlled aircraft that is able to accurately perform knife-edge turns, rolling 90 degrees to dart through an opening narrower than the aircraft’s wingspan.This research is part of a five-year multi-research initiative funded by the Office of Naval Research, led by Tedrake and involving researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard, MIT, New York University and Stanford University, to develop a bird-sized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of fast, accurate and repeatable flight at speeds of 10-15 meters per second.
The aircraft developed by Tedrake and his team can currently operate at speeds of up to 7-8 meters per second.“We are inspired by birds, but we are not trying to build a system that is exactly mimicking them,” says Andrew Barry, a graduate student in Tedrake’s research group.
“We are trying to take ideas from nature and then build an engineered system.” SAN FRANCISCO - As San Francisco prepares to implement what is billed as the nation’s toughest local hiring ordinance, the mood at a recent gathering of about 50 local contractors and construction industry representatives was a mix of resigned acceptance and cautious optimism. AT&T Inc.
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