“The vision behind this collaboration was to leverage AI and cloud technologies to bring Earth’s insights to communities that have been underserved, where access to data can lead to tangible improvements,” Minh Nguyen, cloud solution architect at Microsoft, said in a statement. “By enabling users to interact with the data through simple, plain language queries, we’re helping to democratize access to spaceborne information.”

Earth Copilot is currently only available to NASA scientists and researchers for testing to ensure users cannot misuse its data and outputs. The tool is part of NASA’s Transform to Open Science initiative, which aims to share NASA’s geospatial data with a wider audience. Microsoft did not announce a public release date for Earth Copilot.