China develops AI model for lunar exploration

The new tool was unveiled at the International Big Data Industry Expo in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou Province, by a researcher from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Institute of Geochemistry has created a comprehensive "digital moon" platform that includes a complete data bank related to lunar research. This language model functions as a "smart brain" for the platform. 

The model helps identify lunar craters and memorises their size, depth and shape, which provides scientists with important information for studying the geological evolution of the Moon. This is reported by CGTN, a partner of TV BRICS.

According to Liu Jianzhong, a researcher at the Institute of Geochemistry, there are more than one million craters on the Moon with a diameter of more than one kilometre. He noted that manually identifying all these craters is impossible.

Now researchers only need to enter an image of a crater and the language model will determine its shape, size and age with an accuracy of more than 80 per cent.

Scientists say that the development of planetary science depends on two factors: deep-space exploration technologies and the level of data processing and application. Scientific research based on big data is changing the process of scientific and technological development.