NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, ...

NASA and JPL enhanced Curiosity and Perseverance navigation using AutoNav, AEGIS, OBP, and Mars Global Localization to improve autonomous driving on Mars.

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one ...

And Perseverance, which has rolled across the Martian landscape for 5 years now, received a long-distance upgrade. Brad Spakowitz tells you about the Mars rover’s new skill. It’s not quite Google Maps ...

Mars Global Localization (MGL), a tech similar to GPS on Earth, lets Perseverance nail down its coordinates to about 10 inches.

"The fundamental elements of generative AI are showing a lot of promise in streamlining the pillars of autonomous navigation ...

With the help of a new optical system, the Perseverance rover can determine its position on Mars autonomously and much more ...

In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the ...

The Perseverance Mars rover has collected a rock sample on Mars unlike any other it has picked up so far. "My 26th sample, known as 'Silver Mountain,' has textures unlike anything we've seen before," ...

Upgrade allows robot to travel ‘potentially unlimited distances’ without phoning home for help NASA has revealed it repurposed the processor the Perseverance rover used to communicate with the ...

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Delta on Mars. A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another ...