A sophisticated new machine learning algorithm has predicted over 600 hot sites in Antarctica where scientists are expected to uncover a bonanza of the fallen extraterrestrial rocks, according to a Science Advances paper. The problem is that meteorite stranding zones have only been discovered by chance so far. Satellites are useful, but sifting through the photos takes time, and field reconnaissance is expensive. Approximately 45,000 meteorites have been recovered from the ice too far. But that’s a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated 300,000 chunks of space rock buried somewhere on the continent’s surface.
Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/machine-learning-meteorite-antarctica
