Mission controllers are taking advantage of the rover's “thinking while driving capability' to push the limits on Mars.
river delta—a 3-mile journey from its landing site—the rover traveled 1,047 feet in one day. Even more impressive, it did so with minimal help from humans.Rover drivers on Earth at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California are driving the rover using special 3D glasses and 3D photos to view the surrounding terrain more accurately.
While previous rovers also had self-driving software, Perseverance’s advantage is that it can make decisions while its wheels are still moving. Older models, like , had to stop whenever they had to make a decision, resulting in them covering much smaller daily distances. The scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have dubbed this the “thinking while driving capability.”ds of 300 yards per dayPerseverance is currently heading to the Jezero River Basin, a bone-dry region that NASA believes once featured rushing waters.
Along the way it will be searching for evidence of past microbial life as well as collecting soil and rock samples that future Mars missions will retrieve for further analysis. Since Perseverance can travel more quickly than other
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