NASA and IBM release open-source lunar foundation model trained on 17 years of orbiter data
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-04
NASA and IBM have released the Lunar Foundation Model, one of the first open-source AI models for lunar science. Trained on nearly 2 million tile bundles, mostly from 17 years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, it cuts error in predicting polar ice deposits by up to 22% versus the strongest model it was tested against.
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