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        <description>Presented by Jichao Fang (NIU) ML4PSP Seminar April 2026 Mars orbital archives now contain enough imagery that finding morphologically similar features is bottlenecked by search, not data. We present a planetary-scale similarity search system built on foundation-model embeddings over the full CTX Murray global mosaic (~26.9M indexed locations). A Vision Transformer pretrained via self-supervised learning on millions of CTX patches produces embeddings that capture surface texture and landform semantics without any labels. Deployed as a quantized vector index on a single server, the system supports sub-second instance-level retrieval ("find terrains like this"), geo-filtered search within regions of interest, and interactive relevance feedback for iterative refinement. The system is publicly accessible at findmars.space.</description>
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