A recent study found that there is more crater on the moon than most people thought. In the information released by Live Science, more than 109,000 new filters were identified in the “low and mid-broad regions of the moon” using artificial intelligence or AI, which fed data collected by lunar orbiters Chinese.
The number of crocodiles recorded on the lunar surface is now more than a dozen times greater than before. The results of the study were published in the journal Nature Communications on 22 December.
According to associate professor of Earth sciences Chen Yang from Jilin University in China, and lead author of the study, it is the largest database for lunar crater with automatic extraction “for the middle and latitude regions of the moon.
The Live Science report also noted that impact sinks, “created by the meteor strikes,” cover most of the lunar surface.
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A recent study shows that several filters recorded on the lunar surface are now more than a dozen times larger than they were before.
Lunar Letters of ‘Fossils’
In addition, Yang said, impact craters can be thought of as a “fossil” lunar communicator that records the history of the solar system.
However, these ‘fossils’ can vary widely in shape and size, and can re-cover and erode down over time. This means that “recognizing and separating” them takes a long time.
The personal process, too, causes inconsistencies among available databases. Yang, along with her team, addressed these problems through the use of AI, also known as machine learning.
The authors of the study trained on a deep neural network where a computer uses sets of mathematical computers to feed into each other with data coming from previously named predators and teach the algorithms to new ones. to seek.
Small to Medium Craters
That network was used to collect data that the lunar orbiters Chang’e-1 and Chang’e-2 could have, showing more than 109,000 additional filters on the lunar surface.
A large number of rats found in this study are classified as “small to medium” scallops, although they are a sighting of Earthling, they are still relatively large, ranging from 0.6 to 60 miles or one. to 100 kilometers in diameter. The relatively small size of the pits may be why they have not been discovered in the past.
However, the AI program also saw much larger craters and in an irregular shape that, according to the researchers, had eroded. Some of those identified were up to 341 miles or 551 kilometers in diameter.
Moreover, the algorithm also made an estimate, when nearly 19,000 of the pits were created according to their characteristics, such as depth and size, and by naming each one to “geological time.”
AI approach
These trenches spanned the five phases of the lunar geology, with some returning around four billion years.
The research team is looking forward to developing their “crater-spotting algorithm” by providing data from the recently launched Chang’e 5 receiver, which returned samples moon to Earth recently.
In addition, the study’s researchers want to change as well, and use the AI approach for other bodies in the solar system that make up planets like Mars.
In their study, the researchers wrote, such a prediction takes “typically minutes, and then a few hours of post-processing” on a typical computing device.
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