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

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: NASA) NASA's ongoing testing and management of the Perseverance Mars rover has confirmed it should be able to continue ...

Across two days, the rover drove 456 meters without human control ...

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

Nasa used AI to analyse orbital images and plan rover drives, overcoming communication delays between Earth and Mars.

After nearly five years on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover’s durability and gathering new science ...

NASA is making its Mars rovers smarter and more independent. Recently, the Perseverance rover used artificial intelligence ...

NASA's ongoing testing and management of the Perseverance Mars rover has confirmed it should be able to continue its journeys on the Red Planet for many years and miles to come. It's covered about 25 ...