space
Traverse
AI-planned Mars rover navigation. In December 2025, NASA's Perseverance drove 456 meters on routes planned entirely by Claude AI models — analyzing HiRISE orbital imagery to identify boulder fields and sand ripples, generating waypoints to navigate safely. The critical challenge: positional uncertainty grows with distance. By 655m, the rover could be 33m from where it thinks it is. Validated through 500,000 telemetry variables on JPL's digital twin before transmission to Mars.
BIOMASS launches to measure forest carbon flux from space
ESA's BIOMASS satellite successfully launches, featuring first global P-band SAR instrument capable of penetrating forest canopy to measure tree health and carbon flux.
Flying Patents
How the unidentified flying object inspired a flurry of flying saucer patents globally—and how one guy invented his flying saucer years before anyone else.