Alvin Yu, an engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is creating an artificial
A regular GPS system locates placeson Earth. And the engineer trains the artificial intelligence to imitate the features of the lunar horizon, as if they were observed by a researcher working on a satellite of the Earth.
The technology was developed usingdata from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is equipped with the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA). It measures the slopes and roughness of the lunar surface. Simply put, LOLA creates high-resolution topographic maps of the Moon.
These digitized panoramas are then used tocomparing images taken by a rover or astronaut with known boulders, ridges and even craters. As a result, it allows you to accurately determine the location for any given area.
Also Alvin's artificial intelligence systemUA will support LunaNet, the future Internet on the Moon. The idea is that LunaNet will operate as a network that spacecraft and future astronauts can access without first organizing data transfers, as space missions do now.
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