Otonom sürüş yazılımı Perseverance’ı Mars’ta mesafe rekoruna taşıdı

On 11 October 2026, NASA’s Perseverance rover pushed its odometer to 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometres), overtaking the 28.06-mile mark held by the Opportunity rover and setting a new record for driving on another world. Opportunity needed almost 15 years to cover that ground, whereas Perseverance managed it in roughly five and a half. Much of the credit goes to AutoNav, a self-driving system that photographs the terrain as the rover moves, builds a three-dimensional map of hazards and selects a route between waypoints set by the team on Earth. Over 90% of its total distance was covered this way. The original mission plan set an upper limit of 12.4 miles for driving. The extra range matters because it puts more varied geology within reach: the rover has collected 29 samples and found a potential biosignature. It is now examining terrain so old that similar rocks on Earth vanished long ago.