Artificial Intelligence Just Found 7,000 Undiscovered Craters On The Moon
By Jonathan O`Callaghan
16 Mar 2018, 12:12
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to find thousands of new craters on the Moon that had previously gone undetected.
Described in a paper on arXiv, researchers led by Ari Silburt and Mohamad Ali-Dib at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, used an algorithm to scour 90,000 images of the Moon and look for craters that were wider than 5 kilometers (3 miles).
The results revealed nearly 7,000 craters, which almost doubles known craters of this size on the Moon. And it’s hoped that improving the technique could find hundreds of thousands of smaller craters here and elsewhere.
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