NASA's New AI Tool Can Spot Craters On Mars - Analytics India Magazine

Amid NASA's progress in AI research starting from ML model to predict hurricanes to partnering with Google to make quantum computing accessible, it has now developed a new AI tool to classify a cluster of craters on Mars. The launch of this new AI tool, built on a machine learning algorithm, was aimed at helping scientists to reduce their process time of scanning a single Context Camera image. Thus, researchers from Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), created this tool also called an "automated fresh impact crater classifier", where for the "first time" researchers are leveraging AI to identify unknown craters on the Red Planet, stated by NASA, in their statement. According to their news release, typically scientists and researchers spend hours each day studying images to understand "dust devils, avalanches, and shifting dunes," and approximately 40 minutes to scan a single Context Camera image; however this tool will significantly reduce the processing time and advance the workflow massively. The launch of this tool is a part of a broader NASA's bigger effort -- COSMIC -- capturing onboard summarization to monitor image change that develops technologies for future generations of Mars orbiters.