A Blog About GSoC 2021 With ML4SCI by Georgios Pipilis
Mentors: Patrick Peplowski, Sergei Gleyzer, Jason Terry
The following post serves as a synopsis of my work for Google Summer of Code 2021, under the Machine Learning for Science umbrella organisation. The project, titled "Machine Learning Model for the Albedo of Mercury", was part of ML4SCI's research on the planet Mercury, based on data retrieved from NASA's MESSENGER probe. This was my second time participating in GSoC (I worked with the Debian Foundation back in 2018), this time as a postgraduate student.
We can observe planets using all kind of electromagnetic wavelengths (infrared, ultraviolet, gamma-ray and so on). Each of these different approaches provides unique information about the chemistry and the his