NASA, IBM Launch AI Foundation Model for Lunar Science

NASA is bringing artificial intelligence to the study of the Moon, helping researchers transform how they analyze the Moon’s surface. In an ongoing collaboration with IBM Research and several academic institutions, NASA launched the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, among the first open-source AI models built specifically for lunar science. The model, trained primarily on […].

NASA, IBM Launch AI Foundation Model for Lunar Science. The model, trained primarily on data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), is hosted publicly on Hugging Face for anyone to use, with the complete codebase available on GitHub for testing and experimentation. The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model supports the next generation of lunar science by helping researchers quickly analyze vast quantities of data to better understand the Moon’s surface.

Using the model as a mapping tool, researchers can rapidly develop actionable strategies for evaluating the Moon’s rugged surface, understanding its geological past, and planning future lunar research. “NASA has spent decades building an extraordinary scientific record of the Moon, but collecting data is only part of the job,” said Kevin Murphy, chief science data officer and acting chief data and AI officer at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “We also have to make data easier for scientists to explore and use.

NASA and IBM’s latest collaboration is an AI model of the moon made for the Artemis era. NASA and IBM made an AI model for exploring the Moon.

News NASA and IBM made an AI model for exploring the Moon The two organizations are also releasing a dataset researchers can use to make their own models. On April 6, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen flew farther from Earth than any humans before them.

Now, as NASA prepares for the next Artemis mission and beyond, the space agency is working with IBM to give scientists new tools to study the Moon. On Thursday, the two organizations released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model.

It’s an open-source AI system that’s available to download from Hugging Face. As a foundation model, it can do a few different things, says Dr.

Juan Bernabé-Moreno, the director of IBM Research Europe, UK and Ireland. To start, NASA and IBM found it was particularly adept at identifying areas on the lunar surface where there might be ice.

The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model shows what’s possible when we bring AI to NASA’s petabytes of scientific data.