# NASA and IBM's open source lunar model turns 17 years of orbiter data into a foundation for lunar science

> NASA and IBM's open source lunar model turns 17 years of orbiter data into a foundation for lunar science The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model makes decades of lunar observation data usable for machine learning.

- **Source:** [The-decoder](https://the-decoder.com/nasa-and-ibms-open-source-lunar-model-turns-17-years-of-orbiter-data-into-a-foundation-for-lunar-science/?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6ac2445cdb17ed12708396c1)
- **Published:** 2026-10-04
- **Category:** AI & Bots
- **Tags:** #pixel
- **Canonical:** http://localhost:4321/a/6ac2445cdb17ed12708396c1

---

_GearOpen's distilled summary. The full original article is published at The-decoder (source link above); GearOpen does not republish the source's full text._