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NASA's Curiosity rover discovered strange mineral nodules on massive spiderweb formations on Mars.

Being worried about an advanced AI coming for your job is totally valid, even if your job is piloting one of the most ...

A metallic-looking rock sitting on the Martian surface has jolted a mission that was already rewriting what we know about the Red Planet. After years of scanning dust, dunes and ancient lakebeds, a ...

NASA has mapped every inch of Mars, so positioning consists of the rover looking for geologic features and then comparing ...

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

The existence of life for a prolonged period is the possibility that is driving this deep exploration mission on Mars. What ...

In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the Perseverance team used AI to generate the rover’s waypoints. Perseverance used the AI ...

With the Mars Global Localization system, Perseverance can now determine its location in minutes, significantly improving its ...

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving. The previous record was held ...