Deep learning to explore the dark areas of the moon - Actu IA

NASA's Artemis program aims to send astronauts to the south pole of the Moon, where water in the form of ice has been confirmed, rather than near the equator as with the Apollo mission. The dark areas are likely to contain more ice than the others but also to be dangerous for the astronauts venturing there. A team of researchers studied these areas using deep learning, the study entitled "Cryogeomorphic Characterization of Shadowed Regions in the Artemis Exploration Zone" was published in Geophysical Research Letters. For the first Artemis lunar missions, the selected astronauts (one man and one woman) will fly to the south pole of the moon. This region has a great potential, it is thought to have the greatest abundance of water ice because it has craters where the sun's rays never penetrate, their temperature is estimated at -170 .