The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
Sometime next week, NASA's newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world. The
Sometime next week, NASA's newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world. The automobile-sized rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, will traverse beyond 45.16 km (28.06 miles) across the Martian surface.
In doing so it will break the previous distance record held by the long-lived Opportunity rover, which ceased communications with NASA in 2018. So how
did Perseverance reach this record-setting distance in just a third of the time? Read full article Comments
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