Mapping Meteorites in Antarctica: A New Era for Solar System Exploration
Using machine learning and satellite data, researchers are identifying high-probability meteorite zones across Antarctica, streamlining discoveries and unlocking insights into the early solar system.
Using machine learning and satellite data, researchers are identifying high-probability meteorite zones across Antarctica, streamlining discoveries and unlocking insights into the early solar system.
Meteorites serve as invaluable archives of our solar system’s formation, offering information that terrestrial rocks cannot provide. Building on AI-assisted meteorite hunts near Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, a Belgian-Dutch team has now developed the first “treasure map” to predict the locations of meteorite stranding zones (MSZs) across the continent, making recovery efforts more efficient and globally collaborative.
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