How will we evolve life to terraform Mars?

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Terraforming: How can people survive on other planets?

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This short movie shows the dynamic reconstruction of the blood flow of a healthy human heart. It is based exclusively on real medical data gathered by an MRI scanner. The colored virtual particle traces visualize the blood flow, similar to ink spreading in water. The movements of the particles represent the blood flow of a patient’s heart during a single heartbeat and illustrate the speed and direction of the flow. During particle acceleration, the color changes from blue to orange. Sophisticated volume rendering shows the anatomy of the pumping heart. Scientists from Fraunhofer MEVIS created the movie using MeVisLab, a software package for developing medical image processing assistance systems for physicians.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is committed to raising awareness about how computerization influences health care and to inspiring the young to consider career pathways in science by showing new ideas, approaches, and possibilities that emerge from innovative R&D.
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Inspire Fest 2017 on July 6-7, 2017 in Dublin, Ireland: Watch Ann O'Dea (founder), NSF's Dr. Frances Cordova, Nokia Bell Lab's Domhnaill Hernon, and Nokia Bell Lab's President Marcus Weldon.

Evolving Life for Mars
At NASA Ames, Dr. Diana Gentry brings an engineering approach to astrobiology. Her team of biologists, engineers, and computer scientists have designed an automated evolution chamber. Their goal? Evolve a strain of microbes that will thrive in a Martian environment and pave the way for human settlement.

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Taiwanese media artist Yen Tzu Chang had the opportunity to be a guest at Fraunhofer MEVIS as part of a new artist-in-residence program called ‘STEAM Imaging’ initiated by Fraunhofer MEVIS and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. Alongside researchers in Bremen, she developed novel ideas for a workshop with pupils to fuse art and science in an innovative way using MRI data.