Using computers for discovery
Space discovery
The Eagle has landed
Life on mars?
The robot had
The robots Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars
Robots are used to explore planets
A hammer to break rocks open
Instruments to analyse rocks
A flexible robot arm to examine rocks
A miroscope
Two video cameras
Six Apollo missions to the moon returned safelty to Earth
One of the reasons of the Apollo missions were safe and succesfull was the Apollo Guidance Computer(AGC)
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon
The Apollo Lunar Module called Eagle made the first landing on the moon
Medical discovery
Predicting natural disasters
Weather forecasting
Earthquakes
Scients who study earthquakes were called seismologist. They use sensors to detect movements on Earth
The seismologist hope that supercomputers will be able to predict earthquakes
Is a type of a natural disaster
Supercomputers are used for this works
They change their algorithms to help improve predctions in the future
Two parts to predecting
Predicting allow meteorologists to predict the course of hurricanies
Early warnings about bad wheather gives people time to prepare,or to evacuate area
Real whether conditions are recorded
The data is processed using algorithms that predict how weather conditions will change
Computers models and medicine
Animal and Human testing
DNA
Large amount of data
Millions of calculations
Understanding DNA led many important discoveries in the 21 st century
using computers
Travel through the body and repair cells
Develop new drugs and other treatments
Preddict possible bad effects
Predict effect of new treatments
Help doctors
Some medicines are already tested without using animals
Doctors want to develop more compiter models so they can test drugs using compueters
Clinical trial
Tested on small group of humans
Can be dangerous
The explorers were supposed to work for 90 days. Opportunity worked for 15 years
The robots were designed to study rocks on Mars
The AGC was built specially to guide spacecraft to the moon and back.The AGC was the first computer use to guide flights
The AGC was heavy, slow and dificult to use in compare with other computers