In Mars's Gale Crater, Curiosity breaks free of its human shackles. The rover Curiosity, our best friend on Mars, has always had the ability to pilot itself around its new home. But for its first year away from Earth, it's been piloted remotely by humans here on its birth planet. That just changed: this Tuesday, Curiosity officially drove itself for the very first time. Curiosity has an autonomous navigation system that visually analyzes the terrain in front of it. Here's how it works, from NASA...
In Mars's Gale Crater, Curiosity breaks free of its human shackles. The rover Curiosity, our best friend on Mars, has always had the ability to pilot itself around its new home. But for its first year away from Earth, it's been piloted remotely by humans here on its birth planet. That just changed: this Tuesday, Curiosity officially drove itself for the very first time. Curiosity has an autonomous navigation system that visually analyzes the terrain in front of it. Here's how it works, from NASA...
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