"The fundamental elements of generative AI are showing a lot of promise in streamlining the pillars of autonomous navigation for off-planet driving."

Mars, our cosmic neighbor, holds both the allure of exploration and the immense challenge of survival. Colonizing the red planet demands cutting-edge rockets, advanced life support systems, and innovative solutions for energy,

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence. Executed on Dec. 8 and 10, and led by the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California,

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years."

“The presence of liquid water [on Mars] is a broad topic that includes rains, rivers, lakes, as well as oceans,” says Ezat Heydari, a geochemist at Jackson State University who was not involved in the research, to Taylor Mitchell Brown at New Scientist. “In my opinion, this paper addresses the most important one: the ocean.”

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and terrain data normally used by rover planners,

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue has become especially acute with the recent loss of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. NASA’s best communications relay remains the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has now been there for 20 years.