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NASA now lets its Mars rover drive itself
NASA has quietly crossed a threshold on Mars: its flagship rover is no longer just following orders, it is choosing its own path across the planet. The Perseverance rover now uses advanced onboard ...
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Why NASA used giant airbags to land a rover on Mars
Landing on Mars is one of the hardest problems in space exploration. When NASA sent the Spirit rover, engineers relied on an unusual solution: giant airbags. This video explains why they were needed, ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...
On Earth, we can punch an address into Google Maps and be on our way in seconds. But plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult.
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