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Oct 7, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

NASA-IBM Lunar AI Maps Ice, Volcanoes, Craters Using 2M LRO Images

NASA and IBM release an open-source lunar foundation model trained on 17 years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data across 11 modalities and two resolutions, enabling detection of polar ice, young volcanic structures, and craters with performance matching or exceeding baselines, integrated into the TerraTorch toolkit for reproducible research.