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Nasa unfurls giant solar sail – and you can see it from Earth
Centuries after it was first theorised, the sunlight propulsion method could herald a new era of space exploration Nasa has unfurled a solar sail in space for the first time, aiming to harness the propulsive power of sunlight for interstellar travel. The US space agency revealed that it had deployed the solar sail 1,000 kilometres (600…
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Using Deep Learning To Image The Earth’s Planetary Boundary Layer
Lincoln Laboratory researchers are using AI to get a better picture of the atmospheric layer closest to Earth’s surface. Their techniques could improve weather and drought prediction. Haley Wahl | MIT Lincoln LaboratoryMIT News (https://news.mit.edu/2024/using-deep-learning-image-earths-planetary-boundary-layer-0418) Although the troposphere is often thought of as the closest layer of the atmosphere to the Earth’s surface, the planetary boundary layer…