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NASA and IBM release open lunar science model

NASA and IBM released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model for researchers on Sept. 10. Researchers can adapt it using smaller labeled datasets to map craters, identify unusual volcanic features, estimate potential polar ice, and detect changes on the lunar surface. NASA and IBM also released its code and weights, meaning others can test and adapt the model, plus prepared datasets and collections for comparing performance. Trained on roughly 2 million lunar image tiles, the model matched or exceeded several strong comparison systems across evaluated tasks and had a clear advantage in estimating polar ice stability, NASA says.