{"id":207560,"date":"2026-04-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/12-million-images-later-mars-starts-to-make-sense\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:30:11","slug":"12-million-images-later-mars-starts-to-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/12-million-images-later-mars-starts-to-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"12 million images later, Mars starts to make sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260430-science-and-technology-12-million-images-later-mars-starts-make-sense\">12 million images later, Mars starts to make sense<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260430-science-and-technology-12-million-images-later-mars-starts-make-sense\">https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260430-science-and-technology-12-million-images-later-mars-starts-make-sense<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-30 17:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.asu.edu\">news.asu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The vast amount of Mars images collected by orbiters has resulted in a challenge for scientists in understanding the planet due to the varied, incompatible formats and resolutions.<\/li>\n<li>Mirali Purohit, a doctoral student at Arizona State University&#8217;s School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, aims to tackle this challenge by creating the Mars Orbital Model (MOMO), an AI model tailored specifically for Mars data.<\/li>\n<li>MOMO was developed by training on roughly 12 million Mars images, and it can identify small geological features as well as map large-scale geological activities.<\/li>\n<li>Despite common perceptions, Purohit highlights the diversity of Mars&#8217;s geological features due to Mars&#8217; history and varied geological compositions.<\/li>\n<li>MOMO&#8217;s success allows for a holistic understanding of Mars, contributing to the study of its geological history and potentially revealing signs of past water or life.<\/li>\n<li>The goal for Purohit and her lab is to make MOMO, along with the training images, available to the scientific community to advance planetary science at an accelerated rate.<\/li>\n<li>Purohit also plans to merge orbital and rover imagery to give a comprehensive view of Mars.<\/li>\n<li>In the long-term, she aims to deploy models like MOMO to enable continuous data processing, improvement, and adaptation in real-world settings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 million images later, Mars starts to make sense https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20260430-science-and-technology-12-million-images-later-mars-starts-make-sense Publish Date: 2026-04-30 17:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-04\/SCAI_Mirali%20Purohit%20Mars%201920x1080.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207562,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207560\/revisions\/207562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}