NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Trip to Mars – NASA

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Trip to Mars – NASA

By scarney1
Publication Date: 2026-01-30 18:51:00

NASA’s Perseverance used its navigation cameras to capture its journey along the rim of Jezero Crater on December 10, 2025. The Navcam images were combined with rover data and placed in a 3D virtual environment, resulting in this reconstruction with virtual images inserted approximately every 4 inches (0.1 meters) of the journey’s progress.
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The six-wheeled scientist team used vision-enabled AI to create a safe route across the Red Planet’s surface without input from human route planners.

NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has completed the first trips on another world planned by artificial intelligence. The demonstration, conducted Dec. 8 and 10 and led by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, used generative AI to create waypoints for Perseverance, a complex decision-making task typically performed manually by the mission’s human rover…

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