While all of NASA’s Mars rovers have had self-driving abilities, Perseverance has the most advanced one yet. The rover will do this by relying on its self-driving AutoNav system, which has already set impressive distance records. They’ll also hunt for the best routes the rover can take to ascend the 130-foot-high (40-meter-high) delta.īut first, Perseverance needs to get there. The science team will be searching these images for the rocks they’ll eventually want to study in closer detail using the instruments on Perseverance’s arm. The closer we get, the more impressive those images will be.”
“We’ll be taking lots of images of the delta during that drive.
“The delta is so important that we’ve actually decided to minimize science activities and focus on driving to get there more quickly,” said Ken Farley of Caltech, Perseverance’s project scientist. Using a drill on the end of its robotic arm and a complex sample collection system in its belly, Perseverance is collecting rock cores for return to Earth – the first part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. This delta is one of the best locations on Mars for the rover to look for signs of past microscopic life. At the end of the 3-mile (5-kilometer) journey, which began March 14, 2022, Perseverance will reach an ancient river delta within Jezero Crater, where a lake existed billions of years ago.
On the path ahead are sandpits, craters, and fields of sharp rocks that the rover will have to navigate around on its own. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to cover more distance in a single month than any rover before it – and it’s doing so using artificial intelligence.
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(NASA) – The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location.
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