Solar storms are becoming increasingly dangerous for our technology. An intense event could paralyze satellites and leave us without electronics for hours.
With the goal of anticipating these phenomena, NASA and IBM developed Surya, an artificial Sun powered by artificial intelligence capable of predicting solar flares with unprecedented accuracy.
Surya: the digital twin of the Sun
Surya functions as a digital twin of the Sun, processing information to detect patterns of solar activity. Its mission is not only to study the star, but also to protect technological life on Earth.
Nearly ten years of data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) were used, which captures images of the Sun every 12 seconds.
How AI processes space weather
AI standardizes and organizes the data. Then, it applies a long-range vision transformer to analyze huge images and detect patterns even in distant points. Thanks to the spectral gate, Surya filters out noise and optimizes memory, accelerating learning.
