Watch incredible footage of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars’ Jezero Crater in February 2021. This landing began a mission to explore the Red Planet that still continues today. | NOVA l PBS

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence. The demonstration hints at a future of more efficient exploration and even more science. “The fundamental elements of generative AI are showing a lot of promise in streamlining the pillars of autonomous navigation for off-planet driving: perception (seeing the rocks and ripples), localization (knowing where we are), and planning and control (deciding and executing the safe

What you are seeing on the Mars surface is not a UFO or alien drone. It is NASA’s Mars helicopter called Ingenuity. Ingenuity arrived on Mars with the Perseverance rover in 2021. Its mission was to: Test powered flight on another planet Take aerial images of the Martian surface Help rovers choose safe paths Mars has very thin air, so Ingenuity uses fast-spinning blades to fly. It became the first aircraft to fly on another planet in history. Ingenuity proved that flight on Mars is possible, open