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Landing page
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Inspiration
For centuries, the Red Planet has intrigued and bewildered humankind. Now that we are closer than ever to paying our neighbor a visit, it’s time to revisit our ancient connections and gather new perspectives. Our mission is to integrate the numerous ways that humankind has thought about and experienced Mars throughout history with the most recent data collected.
What it does
Our website is an interactive and easy-to-use educational tool that functions as a Google Search for Mars. An AI-powered search engine leverages our custom database created using scientific data, historical literature, and detailed maps.
How we built it
We crawled data from the NASA HiRISE dataset, the Digital Museum of Planetary Mapping catalog, Wikipedia, Wikimedia, and other public sources to train a natural language processing model. This AI model can recognize patterns in keywords from the texts and map different sources to features on the Martian surface. We also created a 3D model of Mars which can be overlaid with historical and recent maps.
Challenges we ran into
Our model was trained on a small subset of data due to the lack of time and computational resources available.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud that we were able to develop a good proof-of-concept.
What we learned
We learned a lot about strategizing and designing a project. We also learned how to develop a web application.
What's next for Mythic Mars
We plan to train the model on an augmented dataset.
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