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A piece of computer software has been developed that was able to uncover almost 7,000 previously undiscovered craters in a matter of hours.

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The finding was made by a team of researchers led by Ari Silburt at Penn State University and Mohamad Ali-Dib at the University of Toronto.

They fed 90,000 images of the moon's surface into an artificial neural network (ANN).
ANNs try to simulate the way the brain works in order to learn and can be trained to recognise patterns in information.
The team's ANN had been taught to categorise images and identify craters larger than five kilometres (three miles) in diameter.
When the machine was tested it located 6,883 new craters, doubling the total number of known craters of this size.
Researcher believe that, with further training, the system could be used to accelerate crater counting even more.


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The algorithm was trained to identify the edges of a crater, which it then checked against a database of previously discovered craters.
It used this information to confirm that the shape of the new object conformed to known crater shapes.
This allowed it to distinguish craters from other geological shapes, including mountains and ridges.


Many of the images it used were captured by Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which was launched via an Atlas V rocket in 2009.


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Whats there is so valuable to mine in these caves?
 

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Potentially water and minerals and the caves could offer ready made shelter.
 

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Whats there is so valuable to mine in these caves?

It is research more focussed on increasing the 'learning' capbility of the Artificial Neural Network. They simply used the moon (I guess) as a method to do this. It is craters as well, not caves.
 

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A piece of computer software has been developed that was able to uncover almost 7,000 previously undiscovered craters in a matter of hours.

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The finding was made by a team of researchers led by Ari Silburt at Penn State University and Mohamad Ali-Dib at the University of Toronto.

They fed 90,000 images of the moon's surface into an artificial neural network (ANN).
ANNs try to simulate the way the brain works in order to learn and can be trained to recognise patterns in information.
The team's ANN had been taught to categorise images and identify craters larger than five kilometres (three miles) in diameter.
When the machine was tested it located 6,883 new craters, doubling the total number of known craters of this size.
Researcher believe that, with further training, the system could be used to accelerate crater counting even more.


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The algorithm was trained to identify the edges of a crater, which it then checked against a database of previously discovered craters.
It used this information to confirm that the shape of the new object conformed to known crater shapes.
This allowed it to distinguish craters from other geological shapes, including mountains and ridges.


Many of the images it used were captured by Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which was launched via an Atlas V rocket in 2009.


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Craters on the moon? Seriously? UnheardoffSorry for low quality post, st.Patrick day victim i guess.Moon is harsh mistress.
 
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Those craters are a real estate bonanza, now they've learned how to sub-divide plots on the moon for moar profit and sales.
Now they just need some Martians to stop in for the "Open Crater" event......

It's amazing what they have been able to do with this, such things certainly make the job of doing projects like mapping as done in this instance easier, faster and more accurate too.
 
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