Without a GPS network on Mars, Perseverance has traditionally relied on engineers back on Earth to confirm where it is on the Martian surface. NASA’s newly implemented Mars Global Localization system ...

Abstract: In extraterrestrial environments with limited prior information, the autonomous perception capability of rovers is crucial for exploration missions. Given the images captured by rover ...

A U.S. defense research program is developing optical clock technology designed to maintain precise time synchronization in GPS-denied and contested environments, reducing reliance on satellite-based ...

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 ...

Ever lose connection to GPS? Sometimes you're in a tunnel, sometimes your phone is acting up, and sometimes you're a robotic explorer on another planet hundreds of millions of miles away from the ...

At the beginning of February 2026, American space agency announced a major breakthrough in the way it operates its rovers on Mars: for the first time, the six-wheeled machine called Perseverance had ...

Artificial intelligence has been advancing at an exponential rate over the past few years, prompting widespread concern that AI could start taking jobs away from real people. Unfortunately for the ...

Abstract: Web frameworks have significantly changed how developers create web applications for the Internet. Thanks to pre-defined libraries, these frameworks not only accelerate development time but ...

Mars is a lonely place to drive. For five years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been roaming its cold, dusty surface with no roads and no GPS. Every move it makes matters. One wrong turn could send it ...

NASA has given its Perseverance Mars rover a powerful new ability to determine its exact location on the Red Planet without ...