Artificial intelligence will help scientists search for signs of ancient life on Mars and other planets thanks to work by NASA scientists in training the system. Da Poian and Lyness have been working to train artificial intelligence systems to analyse hundreds of rock samples and thousands of other data points. When new raw data is received, the software tells the scientists what previously encountered samples match this new data. "When we will be operating on Mars, samples will only remain in the rover for at most a few weeks before the rover dumps them,' said Lyness. The researchers note that data is expensive to send back from Mars, and gets more expensive as landers get further from Earth.

Source: Daily Mail June 26, 2020 14:13 UTC