# How Perseverance Learned to ‘Self-Locate’ on Mars

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KofTfRGO4Zs
- **Дата:** 18.02.2026
- **Длительность:** 1:36
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- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/46395

## Описание

NASA’s Perseverance rover can now precisely determine its own location on Mars without waiting for human help from Earth. This is possible thanks to a new technology called Mars Global Localization.

This technology rapidly compares panoramic images from the rover’s navigation cameras with onboard orbital terrain maps. It’s done with an algorithm that runs on the rover’s Helicopter Base Station processor, which was originally used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. In a few minutes, the algorithm can pinpoint Perseverance’s position to within about 10 inches (25 centimeters). The technology will help the rover drive farther autonomously and keep exploring. 

Mars Global Localization was first used successfully for regular mission operations on Feb. 2, 2026, and the team expects related reliability techniques to inform future missions, including exploration on the Moon.

Learn more: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-p...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

## Транскрипт

### Segment 1 (00:00 - 01:00) []

Imagine you're alone in a vast desert with no roads and no maps and you only get one phone call a day to ask, "Where am I? " That's what NASA's Perseverance rover has had to do on Mars 5 years. For pinpoint accuracy, it needed humans back on Earth. But not anymore. Using a new technology called Mars Global Localization, the rover can now pinpoint its location without asking humans for help. Here's how it works. Perseverance takes panoramic images and turns it into a bird's eye view. Then an onboard algorithm rapidly compares those images to terrain maps from an orbiting spacecraft and determines the rover's precise location. The key to this quick computing is a processor Perseverance originally used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. The commercial processor is more than 100 times faster than the rover's main computer. Now, it's helping Perseverance keep moving confidently. And global localization isn't the only recent innovation. The team has started to use generative AI to help plan the rover's driving path by creating way points for Mars. By leveraging decades of Mars knowledge and the latest advancements in technology, the rover will be able to drive for much longer distances autonomously. So, we'll explore more of the planet and get more science. And we're not stopping at Mars. We've already turned our sights to the moon, where harsh lighting and long freezing lunar nights make knowing exactly where our spacecraft are even more critical.