The NASA JPL robotics team found a way to use the commercial CPU (Snapdragon) in the Ingenuity helicopter base station on the side of the Perseverance rover to do advanced image processing on the imagery captured by the rover and determine the rover location on Mars accurately. Since it was not a space-hardened CPU, they had to do extra error checking, but it works well. See the news release for more:
#Mars #NASA #JPL #PerseveranceRover
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-now-autonomously-pinpoints-its-location-on-mars/

The NASA JPL robotics team found a way to use the commercial CPU (Snapdragon) in the Ingenuity helicopter base station on the side of the Perseverance rover to do advanced image processing on the imagery captured by the rover and determine the rover location on Mars accurately. Since it was not a space-hardened CPU, they had to do extra error checking, but it works well. See the news release for more:
#Mars #NASA #JPL #PerseveranceRover
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-now-autonomously-pinpoints-its-location-on-mars/

🔴 #Mars #Perseverance Sol 1779: Left #Mastcam-Z Camera | enhanced mosaic panorama

Feb. 20, 2026 (Sol 1779), 4 photos between 11:24-11:25

Source images: Mars_Perseverance_ZL0_1779_0824866278_394EBY_N0860000ZCAM09831_0630LMJ/297/228/312

Credit: #NASA/ #JPL-Caltech/ #ASU/ Jackie Branc

#RedPlanet

🔴 #Mars #Perseverance Sol 1779: Left #Mastcam-Z Camera | enhanced mosaic panorama

Feb. 20, 2026 (Sol 1779), 4 photos between 11:24-11:25

Source images: Mars_Perseverance_ZL0_1779_0824866278_394EBY_N0860000ZCAM09831_0630LMJ/297/228/312

Credit: #NASA/ #JPL-Caltech/ #ASU/ Jackie Branc

#RedPlanet

@PaulHammond51 reminds me that today is the 5th anniversary of #Perseverance landing on the surface of #Mars, hanging under the #SkyCrane as seen in this #OutOfThisWorld image it captured the moment the umbilical cord connecting them was cut, and the Sky Crane veered off to a heroic crash about 900m NW.

De-bayered, processed EDL_RUCAM
RMC: 0.0000 (prelanding, corrected)
Sol: 0 (corrected)
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00293/ids/edr/browse/edl/EUE_0293_0692945892_348ECM_N0090000EDLC00293_0050LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech / 65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #solarocks #space

A new technology from #NASA #JPL enables #Perseverance to figure out its whereabouts without calling humans for help.

Dubbed Mars Global Localization, it features an algorithm that compares panoramic images from the rover’s navigation cameras with onboard orbital terrain maps, and runs on the CPU originally used by Perseverance to communicate with #Ingenuity. Calc's a fix in 2min with 25cm accuracy.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-now-autonomously-pinpoints-its-location-on-mars

PDF:
https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/media/documents/2024_Global_Localization_ICRA.pdf

#Mars2020 #solarocks #space #technology

@PaulHammond51 reminds me that today is the 5th anniversary of #Perseverance landing on the surface of #Mars, hanging under the #SkyCrane as seen in this #OutOfThisWorld image it captured the moment the umbilical cord connecting them was cut, and the Sky Crane veered off to a heroic crash about 900m NW.

De-bayered, processed EDL_RUCAM
RMC: 0.0000 (prelanding, corrected)
Sol: 0 (corrected)
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00293/ids/edr/browse/edl/EUE_0293_0692945892_348ECM_N0090000EDLC00293_0050LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech / 65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #solarocks #space