July 05, 2005
Deep Impact: A Further Step
NASA’s Deep Impact is a really astonishing project. You may know by now that the mission is about sending a spacecraft toward comet Temple 1 to make an artificial impact with it. This way, one can seek the material beneath the surface of that comet which has the same age as the solar system. This helps us to find out more about the early ages of solar system.
IMO, the mission would be considered as science fiction ten or twenty years ago.
Hum!! Sometimes I wonder if those space missions use some kind of Evolutionary Computation to do some task during the missions. :D
Would be very nice to see it!! :D
Até Mais!!
Marcelo
Posted by: Marcelo(a.k.a Nosophorus) at July 9, 2005 05:32 AMI guess NASA have used evolutionary computation to some design optimization, e.g. antenna design. But during the mission?! I guess they don't!
Posted by: SoloGen at July 16, 2005 01:19 AM