{"id":322905,"date":"2025-11-26T03:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=930387"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:30:43","slug":"nasa-crater-detection-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=322905","title":{"rendered":"NASA Crater Detection Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA\u2019s Lucy spacecraft captured images of the Moon\u2019s surface on Oct 16, 2022, after flying by the Earth for its first of three gravity assists.<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Crater rims are vital landmarks for planetary science and navigation. Yet detecting them in real imagery is tough, with shadows, lighting shifts, and broken edges obscuring their shape.<\/p>\n

This project invites you to develop methods that can reliably fit ellipses to crater rims, helping advance future space exploration.<\/p>\n

In the pursuit of next generation, terrain-based optical navigation, NASA is developing a system that will use a visible-light camera on a spacecraft to capture orbital images of lunar terrain and process the imagery to:<\/p>\n