The navigation strategy of NASA’s Curiosity rover means it has to stop frequently to check its position, but soon a software update will allow it to move almost continuously
Technology
17 August 2022
A new software update will soon give NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover a 50 per cent speed boost, allowing it to cover a greater distance and complete more science. But the update very nearly didn’t happen as a mysterious bug in the software eluded engineers for years.
Curiosity, which landed on Mars 10 years ago this month, has already vastly outlived its planned two-year lifespan. It can be controlled in several ways, but the vast majority of the time, it operates in visual odometry (VO) …
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