"NASA's Bold Retrieval: Recovering Dark Matter Data with Raspberry Pi-Powered Airdrop Systems"

Scientists at the University of Sydney have successfully recovered gigabytes of data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters using a new recovery system. The Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was launched from New Zealand and damaged upon landing in Argentina. However, two Data Recovery System packages containing the mission's information were safely retrieved. The study provides instructions to build the recovery system and highlights its importance in salvaging data in worst-case scenarios. The success of the system has led NASA to consider producing similar packages for future science missions.