AI in Space

NASA is partnering with machine learning researchers and computer companies on planetary defense and mapping the moonImage: IntelAmong the extraterrestrial applications for which AI will be used is producing better maps of the moon's surface. Inadvertently steering a rover into one of the craters is far worse than driving over a pothole on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
If a distant comet is on course to collide with Earth, scientists will be able to detect it only about a year in advance. That