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the perseverance rover is currently

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driving a three mile journey to get to

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the jezreel river delta i'm tyler del

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sesto i'm a rover driver for nasa's

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perseverance rover

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we're here at nasa's jet propulsion

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laboratory where the rover drivers are

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planning the drive

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we use 3d monitors and 3d glasses to

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look at the terrain around the rover and

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that 3d environment is created from

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images taken on the previous day on mars

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over the past year the rover drivers

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have taken a very active role in

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perseverance's drives

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currently though we're just trying to

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drive as far as we can every day so

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we're relying more on perseverance's

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self-driving capabilities that means

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instead of the rover drivers choosing

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exactly where to turn and what rocks to

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avoid we're letting perseverance choose

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on its own we give it specific stops

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along the route but it chooses how to

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get there and we trust it to avoid the

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hazards along that path

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the rover is self-driving ability is

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very similar to self-driving cars on

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earth but there are different challenges

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perseverance needs to look at rocks sand

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and other types of hazards like craters

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and large things like cliffs and it

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needs to avoid these to keep itself safe

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this is one of our tools to look at how

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drives performed on mars

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this is the actual map the rover created

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onboard using its left and right cameras

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as the rover drives this path it's using

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this map to identify which paths are

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safe to drive

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perseverance's self-driving software is

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a big improvement over previous rovers

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which also had self-driving capabilities

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perseverance is able to process and

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analyze images while the wheels are

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still in motion previous rovers like

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curiosity needed to stop then take

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images and then process those images

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before choosing a safe path perseverance

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is able to do all this while driving we

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call this a thinking while driving

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capability

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the perseverance rover has already

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broken all of the driving records from

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previous rovers

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this means we're able to drive farther

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every day than the previous rovers ever

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were able to

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the perseverance rover has a top speed

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of 0.1 miles per hour now that doesn't

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sound very fast but that does enable us

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to drive over 300 yards every day and

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keep the rover safe

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perseverance's self-driving ability is

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very important to this mission it allows

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us to get to the jezreel river delta as

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fast as possible and that gives the

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science team as much time there to study