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happening this week on cnet scrape student from MIT has developed obstacle detection software that allows a drone to autonomously fly at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour avoiding trees along the way mit computer science and artificial intelligence PhD student andrew Berry built the drone out of standard component parts adding stereoscopic cameras to both the wings so that the drone can scan its surroundings in real-time up to 33 feet in front of it he embedded an algorithm into the software that allows the drone to see its surroundings and turn to avoid objects in its path autonomously the software quickly extracts depth information from the view of the cameras at a rate of 120 frames per second at a speed of 8.3 milliseconds per frame Barry is working to improve his algorithm to work at different depths allowing a drone to fly safely through more crowded settings nASA released a video of the Sun this week that was produced at NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in studying 4k Ultra high-definition video capturing these close-up video images of the Sun is no walk in the park however each minute of footage takes the observatory media specialists about 10 hours to produce using a complicated process according to the video NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory images the Sun every 12 seconds and ten wavelengths of invisible ultraviolet light each wavelength is assigned a unique color and every image is eight times the resolution of HD video X Dubai and jet man Dubai took to the skies again for another jetpack flying adventure centered around in emirates airlines airbus a380 superjumbo jet the jetpack wearing Daredevils only have about 10 minutes of fuel in those personal jetpack devices but it was enough time to get some amazing footage of the jet packs flying alongside the massive jumbo jet make sure to read the article and watch the video in its entirety embedded in the crave blog post NASA's newest Mars spacecraft maven was launched in 2013 to help figure out why Mars lost its early atmosphere it arrived at the planet and began orbiting Mars in 2014 and since then has provided NASA scientists with vast amounts of data to help crack this long-standing mystery well this morning NASA held a live press conference to explain what it believes caused Mars to be stripped of its atmosphere to help illustrate what researchers had discovered NASA lead scientist Michael Meyer borrowed a song lyric from Bob Dylan stating the answer my friends is blowin in the wind NASA scientists believe that Mars was stripped of its atmosphere by solar winds radiating from our own Sun which over a long period of time eventually blew away all of the ions in Mars atmosphere it is believed that Mars was once a lush water covered planet just like Earth but because of its lack of a magnetic field which repels solar winds from the Sun on Earth Mars was vulnerable and was basically being constantly pressure washed by charged ions blasting its surface from the Sun this allowed the Mars atmosphere to slowly escape and dissipate into space leaving in a cold desert like lifeless planet stay tuned to the krave blog for more information on nasa's big announcement alright guys that's the show thank you very much for watching as always you can find all these news stories to see nuts crave blog at crave dot cnet com make sure you full of crap on Twitter at crave and check out this week's crave giveaway this week's crib giveaway is the blast motion easton power sensor from proving your baseball swing go to the blog and enter to win you you