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Amber Portwood: My New Boyfriend is NOTHING Like Matt Baier!

Is anyone else a little alarmed by how fast Amber Portwoods new relationship is moving?. Because you really, really should be.

Sure, this new guy, Andrew Glennon, seems nice enough, and at least he has a job. Plus, as far as we know, he doesnt have a slew of secret children he refuses to support.

What were saying is that at this point, he seems miles better than Matt Baier, and thats definitely a good thing. But the fact remains that Amber has never, ever been in a healthy relationship.

She was with Gary Shirley for a while, and they may win the crown for the most toxic relationship in Teen Mom history.

After that, she dated that guy she met at the Walmart who later, on their first date, revealed that hed just been released from prison and that meeting her was the best day of his life.

She missed out on dating for a little while when she went to jail herself, but after she was released, she promptly began dating Matt.

Its all bad, and honestly, we kind of have to automatically question any guy who would think dating her right now would be a good idea. So sorry about it, Andrew.

Luckily for us and our hobby of boyfriend judging, Amber and Andrew just did their first interview together as a couple. So lets check it out and figure out whats wrong with this guy!.

To start, Amber confirmed what we already knew: they met earlier this summer while she and Matt were filming a new season of Marriage Boot Camp.

He didnt really know who I was and we didnt talk on the show because, you know, he would get in trouble, and I would have gotten in trouble, she explains.

But I didnt even know that he even liked me! It just simply was he had a little crush on me.

Red flag number one: because seriously, can you imagine how much of a hot mess Amber must have been on Marriage Boot Camp? And he developed a crush then?.

Amber says that two weeks after they finished filming -- so mid-July -- he reached out to her.

We decided that we wanted to be friends at first because we were just having so much fun talking with each other and, you know, then when he came out to hang out, we just had even more fun together, so thats just kind of how it started.

Red flag number two: this is exactly how Matt worked his claws into her. He came to hang out and never left.

Andrew says that when he came to Indiana to see her, It was definitely butterflies there, but again, as we started talking, strangely I felt so comfortable, which was amazing.

Amber claims that Were going slow and were just trying to be smart about everything, which is good to find somebody on your level like that.

I think we just kind of fell into this groove of really enjoying life with each other for a while, so its kind of fun and its kind of serious in a way as well, but were trying not to put too much pressure on a relationship.

Red flag number three: what the hell is she talking about, were going slow?. Last we checked, introducing your daughter to a guy you just really started talking to a month ago isnt exactly slow.

But thankfully, Andrew lives out in Malibu, and he hasnt moved in with her -- yet. So for now, they have a long distance relationship.

Which, according to Amber, has been good because we can give each other space. It balances everything out especially when you first break up with somebody..

Because, as she says, you dont really want to jump right into another situation immediately after a breakup, but some men are worth it, some arent. And Andrew is definitely worth my time.

As for the fact that Amber already introduced Andrew to her daughter, she says Leah sent me a message, like, pretty much she really likes him.

I think she just thinks hes new and different which is a good thing, but like I said, nothing is forced and were not trying to jump that part of my life in, so it was very chill, very relaxing.

She adds that Leah was very comfortable, which. Amber also confirms that Andrew will appear on the next season of Teen Mom OG, because why wouldnt he?.

She then throws in this gem:. I think the reason why we are where were at right now is because we both have kind of let it flow and then it became more serious and then we became committed.

Again, these two have been dating for one month. But hey, Amber, you do you.

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How Light Looks Different on the Moon and What NASA Is Doing About It - Duration: 4:33.

How Light Looks Different on the Moon and What NASA Is Doing About It

A team at NASA's Ames Research Center has created a simulated lunar environment to study lighting conditions experienced at the unexplored poles of the Moon.

Because of low angle sunlight and soil that reflects light like a blanket of fresh snow, navigating the lunar surface at the poles could be hazardous for rovers. Things look different on the Moon. Literally.

Because the Moon isn't big enough to hold a significant atmosphere, there is no air and there are no particles in the air to reflect and scatter sunlight.

On Earth, shadows in otherwise bright environments are dimly lit with indirect light from these tiny reflections.

That lighting provides enough detail that we get an idea of shapes, holes and other features that could be obstacles to someone – or some robot – trying to maneuver in shadow.

"What you get on the Moon are dark shadows and very bright regions that are directly illuminated by the Sun – the Italian painters in the Baroque period called it chiaroscuro – alternating light and dark," said Uland Wong, a computer scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

"It's very difficult to be able to perceive anything for a robot or even a human that needs to analyze these visuals, because cameras don't have the sensitivity to be able to see the details that you need to detect a rock or a crater.".

In addition, the dust itself covering the Moon is otherworldly. The way light reflects on the jagged shape of individual grains, along with the uniformity of color, means it looks different if it's lit from different directions.

It loses texture at different lighting angles. Some of these visual challenges are evident in Apollo mission surface images, but the early lunar missions mostly waited until lunar "afternoon" so astronauts could safely explore the surface in well-lit conditions.

Future lunar rovers may target unexplored polar regions of the Moon to drill for water ice and other volatiles that are essential, but heavy, to take on human exploration missions.

At the Moon's poles, the Sun is always near the horizon and long shadows hide many potential dangers in terrain like rocks and craters. Pure darkness is a challenge for robots that need to use visual sensors to safely explore the surface.

Wong and his team in Ames' Intelligent Robotics Group are tackling this by gathering real data from simulated lunar soil and lighting.

"We're building these analog environments here and lighting them like they would look on the Moon with solar simulators, in order to create these sorts of appearance conditions," said Wong.

"We use a lot of 3-dimensional imaging techniques, and use sensors to create algorithms, which will both help the robot safeguard itself in these environments, and let us train people to interpret it correctly and command a robot where to go.".

The team uses a 'Lunar Lab' testbed at Ames – a 12-foot-square sandbox containing eight tons of JSC-1A, a human-made lunar soil simulant.

Craters, surface ripples and obstacles are shaped with hand tools, and rocks are added to the terrain in order to simulate boulder fields or specific obstacles.

Then they dust the terrain and rocks with an added layer of simulant to produce the "fluffy" top layer of lunar soil, erasing shovel and brush marks, and spreading a thin layer on the faces of rocks.

Each terrain design in the testbed is generated by statistics based on common features observed from spacecraft around the Moon.

Solar simulator lights are set up around the terrain to create Moon-accurate low-angle, high-contrast illumination. Two cameras, called a stereo imaging pair, mimic how human eyes are set apart to help us perceive depth.

The team captured photographs of multiple testbed setups and lighting angles to create a dataset to inform future rover navigation.

"But you can only shovel so much dirt; we are also using physics-based rendering, and are trying to photo-realistically recreate the illumination in these environments," said Wong.

"This allows us to use a supercomputer to render a bunch of images using models that we have decent confidence in, and this gets us a lot more information than we would taking pictures in a lab with three people, for example.".

Above is a set from over 2,500 pairs of stereo camera images taken from at least 12 scenarios of recreated craters and rock formations that Wong and his team collected to accurately simulate the lighting conditions at the Moon's poles.

The goal is to improve the stereo viewing capabilities of robotic systems to effectively navigate unknown terrain and avoid hazards at the Moon poles.

The result, a Polar Optical Lunar Analog Reconstruction or POLAR dataset, provides standard information for rover designers and programmers to develop algorithms and set up sensors to safely navigate.

The POLAR dataset is applicable not only to our Moon, but to many types of planetary surfaces on airless bodies, including Mercury, asteroids, and regolith-covered moons like Mars' Phobos.

So far, early results show that stereo imaging is promising for use on rovers that will explore the lunar poles.

"One of the mission concepts that's in development right now, Resource Prospector, that I have the privilege of working on, might be the first mission to land a robot and navigate in the polar regions of the Moon," said Wong.

"And in order to do that, we have to figure out how to navigate where nobody's ever been.".

This research is funded by the agency's Advanced Exploration Systems and Game Changing Development programs. NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute provides the laboratory facilities and operational support.