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The aerospace industry is high-stakes. To help chart a course for Perseverance, NASA has enlisted AI and a digital twin.
The agency’s leader said new plans and timelines for the coming decade aim to create a permanent foothold by humans on another world and inspire Americans.
NASA's Perseverance rover has completed its first-ever drive on Mars fully planned by artificial intelligence, the space agency announced. The demonstration, carried out on Dec. 8 and Dec. 10 of 2025, showed that generative AI could safely plan rover ...
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 waypoints on two separate days, traveling a total of ...
NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16.
A new technology called Mars Global Localization lets Perseverance determine precisely where it is, without human help. 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 ...
Headlines about artificial intelligence (AI) are inescapable on Earth, ranging from celebrity deepfakes to breakthroughs in fundamental science. Now, it seems even Mars is no longer a haven from AI’s ubiquitous presence. On Dec. 8 and 10, NASA’s ...
Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a cold, desert world within our solar system. It has a very thin atmosphere, but the dusty, lifeless (as far as we know it) planet is far from dull.