
May 31, 2026
✦India Today
Move over, NASA, this Jharkhand AI breakthrough could guide future space missions
Jharkhand's BIT Mesra team taught AI to spot lunar craters, a job usually for geologists. This ISRO-funded project, which started in February 2023, aims to speed up mapping for future moon missions. Dr. Sanchita Paul said, "Our main mission was deep learning lunar crater detection." This breakthrough could change how we explore space.