Meteorites are among the most important objects scientists can study to understand the solar system, but finding them is tricky and time-consuming. Now, one team of researchers is wanting to speed up the procedure with drones.
Robert Citron at the University of California, Davis, and his colleagues have already been trialling using drones and machine understanding how to find these rocks soon after their blazing journey through the atmosphere.
The NASA-funded study flew a camera-equipped consumer drone over a dry lake bed in Nevada, …