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

Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the ...

A new technology lets NASA’s Mars rover pinpoint its position within inches, drive farther on its own, and speed up exploration.

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie ...

Just like the Scarecrow of Oz, it turns out the rover was smart all along, it just didn't realize!

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

Mars Ingenuity helicopter's 59th flight was captured by the Perseverance rover's Left Mastcam-Z camera. Credit: Credit: Space ...

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 ...

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

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what ...

NASA JPL’s Mars Global Localisation lets Perseverance pinpoint its position to 25cm in minutes, boosting autonomy.