Monday, April 11, 2022

NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover is Breaking Records | JPL

NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover is Breaking Records | JPL

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is using its self-driving capabilities as it treks across Jezero Crater seeking signs of ancient life and gathering rock and soil samples for planned return to Earth. 

With the help of special 3D glasses, rover drivers on Earth plan routes with specific stops, but 

increasingly allow the rover to "take the wheel" and choose how it gets to those stops. Perseverance's auto-navigation system, known as AutoNav, makes 3D maps of the terrain ahead, identifies hazards, and plans a route around any obstacles without additional direction from controllers back on Earth.

Now the rover can drive through these more complex terrains, which helps Perseverance achieve its science goals and break driving records. The rover is traversing from an area near its landing site, "Octavia E. Butler Landing," to an area where an ancient river flowed into a body of water and deposited sediments (known as a delta).

To track Perseverance's drive, visit: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/where-is-the-rover/

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

For more information on Perseverance, visit: https://mars.nasa.gov/perseverance


Credit:  NASA/JPL-Caltech//ASU/MSSS

Duration: 2 minutes, 40 seconds

Release Date: April 8, 2022


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