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Nasa's Perseverance rover has completed five years on Mars and received a new autonomous navigation system. This technology allows the rover to pinpoint its location without help from Earth.
Mars Global Localization (MGL), a tech similar to GPS on Earth, lets Perseverance nail down its coordinates to about 10 inches.
For five years the Mars Rover has been exploring without the aid of maps, GPS or even a brief idea of where it’s going without the help of people on Earth feeding it information ...
In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the ...
NASA JPL’s Mars Global Localisation lets Perseverance pinpoint its position to 25cm in minutes, boosting autonomy.
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity seen flying during a fight. The Perseverance rover can be seen in the distance during the ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a striking new image of massive, wind-carved sand formations known as "megaripples" during its latest exploration stop on the Red Planet. "On Mars, the past is ...
Nasa used AI to analyse orbital images and plan rover drives, overcoming communication delays between Earth and Mars.
Delta on Mars. A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another ...