BBC: The two NASA rovers operating on the surface of Marsare getting a software upgrade to study Martian clouds and dust devils. The new algorithms will give the rovers the ability to sift through their images and send the best candidates of clouds and dust devils back to Earth. The two rovers have exceeded NASA’s expectations on how long they could last on the surface by more than 200 days.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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