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 ...
Graduating senior Mark Wilbourne is being honored with a 2024 Perseverance Award by the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The distinction honors undergraduate students who persevere despite ...
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, ...
NASA has given its Perseverance Mars rover a powerful new ability to determine its exact location on the Red Planet without waiting for instructions from Earth, effectively giving the six-wheeled ...
NASA has released details of a test it conducted in December in which it used generative AI to plan a route for the Perseverance rover. The test run seems to have gone rather well, prompting NASA to ...
NASA's Perseverance rover took this selfie in May 2025. The Navcam used to capture the apparent comet images is located just below the large white camera at the top of the mast. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS ...
Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition. The tubes carried in the belly of ...
The Perseverance Award recognizes undergraduate students who persevere despite adversity – above and beyond the inherent perseverance needed in any engineering major. What is your favorite memory from ...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (4 meters) away in this image from April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.