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🚀 The NASA $55,000 Crater Detection Challenge is live! How do you find craters on the Moon — when shadows, lighting, and terrain make them almost invisible? 🌕 That’s the problem Topcoder, on behalf of NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is inviting data scientists and AI innovators around the world to solve. In the new Crater Detection Marathon Match, you’ll develop algorithms to detect and map crater rims from lunar imagery — a crucial step toward advancing planetary navigation systems that will guide future lunar missions. When spacecraft travel to the Moon, they rely on precise terrain-based navigation to determine their location. Craters serve as natural landmarks - but detecting them accurately under changing lighting and viewing angles is one of the toughest challenges in space navigation. Your challenge: ✅ Detect crater rims in lunar images with challenging lighting ✅ Fit ellipses to crater boundaries ✅ Help NASA improve optical navigation systems for lunar missions With $55,000 in total prizes and special awards for innovation and accuracy, this is your chance to make a real impact on NASA’s lunar exploration efforts. Turn your algorithms into tools for lunar navigation. Link in comments to join the challenge. #NASA #Topcoder #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #MarathonMatch #LunarExploration #SpaceInnovation #Crowdsourcing #OpenInnovation Tony Jefts Sandhya Ramachandran Arun Kunal Chadha Wipro