Perseverance’s Software Lets it Move Swiftly Across the Surface of Mars

Even though Mars rovers are not known for being particularly fast, they did open up over their long mission times. Perseverance is leaving them in the dust as it makes its way up to a river delta where it will begin its next round of sample collection.

Perseverance began its journey on March 14th and is traveling to a part of Jezero Crater that a river used to flow through. Perseverance is one of the first steps of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, and it is likely to be the best place to find evidence of ancient Martian life.

Perseverance will collect samples on the Martian surface and then send them back via a separate mission with a booster that will take off from the surface of Mars.

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Two major improvements help facilitate that speed increase: better sensors and better self-awareness.

A dedicated image processing computer based on a field-Programmable gate array is a major step forward, and the structure further increases that capability.

Perseverance is much better in this area, and self-awareness can help with that.

Perseverance takes a different approach, with smaller, individual hitboxes for different components of the rover.

In that rush, the science team is taking a back seat to get to where they want to go faster.

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