New Software on NASA Spacecraft Monitors Active Volcano

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Software on a NASA spacecraft recently made a scientific observation on its own without human interaction. The Space Technology 6 Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment captured images of Antarctica`s Mount Erebus and detected volcanic activity.The software, developed by NASA`s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., controls the Earth Observing-1 spacecraft. NASA`s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md, manages the satelli