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

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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.

American space agency NASA announced it found a new way to allow the Perseverance rover to determine its position on Mars by itself.

Nasa's Perseverance rover has completed five years on Mars and received a new autonomous navigation system. This technology allows the rover to pinpoint its location without help from Earth.

As NASA's Perseverance rover, a car-sized robotic explorer, looks for signs of possible ancient life on Mars, it has stumbled across some interesting things. Recently, on Aug. 31 (the 1,610th sol, or ...

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

NASA’s Perseverance rover, now five years into its mission on Mars, has already traveled nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) across the planet’s surface. With the mission team continuing to assess its ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...