The rover's autopilot even guided it through boulders not seen by orbiting spacecraft.
Part of the path NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took to cross the boulder field dubbed"Snowdrift Peak."
Although the mission team usually charts out the rover's course manually, the automatic navigation system named AutoNav proved remarkable in this case as it safely guided"It was much denser than anything Perseverance has encountered before — just absolutely littered with these big rocks," Del Sesto, the deputy rover planner lead for Perseverance at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said in apublished Thursday .
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