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/

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A rock in a rover on #Mars could prove the existence of life on other planets. #Trump wants to abandon it.

On Mars, in the belly of a rover named #Perseverance, a titanium tube holds a stone more precious than any diamond or ruby on Earth. The robot spotted it in 2024 along the banks of a Martian riverbed & zapped it with an ultraviolet laser.

#science #space #NASA #JPL #discovery #knowledge #idiocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/trump-nasa-budget-american-space-program/685332/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXpGZyoCujPSVvS4n6kP3FU

#GiftArticle

A rock in a rover on #Mars could prove the existence of life on other planets. #Trump wants to abandon it.

On Mars, in the belly of a rover named #Perseverance, a titanium tube holds a stone more precious than any diamond or ruby on Earth. The robot spotted it in 2024 along the banks of a Martian riverbed & zapped it with an ultraviolet laser.

#science #space #NASA #JPL #discovery #knowledge #idiocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/trump-nasa-budget-american-space-program/685332/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXpGZyoCujPSVvS4n6kP3FU

Truly, the best of the #oldweb: #NASA's #JPL site on #Mars #meteorites 😊 (1999)

https://web.archive.org/web/19991004083748/http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/

Truly, the best of the #oldweb: #NASA's #JPL site on #Mars #meteorites 😊 (1999)

https://web.archive.org/web/19991004083748/http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/

🛒 NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Reportedly Holding "Going Out of Business Sale" for Satellites

｢ The list of for-sale assets includes several Earth-monitoring satellites that were once tasked with studying the environment, helping with hurricane prediction efforts, and measuring the effects of climate change. Most launched over the last 20 or so years ｣

https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-jpl-going-satellites

#nasa #jpl #science

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📷 :https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/visions-of-the-future/

#astronomy#AstroDon #Space#Art #MastoArt #Science#NASA

Do you have a favorite??

📷 :https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/visions-of-the-future/

#astronomy#AstroDon #Space#Art #MastoArt #Science#NASA