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My name is Nikolas Trawny, I work here at
JPL on the ADAPT G-FOLDs Project.

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Well imagine here on Earth we’ve become

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so used to having a cell phone with GPS available
to us at all times.

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But on Mars we don’t have GPS, so our technology
tries to address this problem.

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We have camera that looks on the ground and
can figure out where we are what we are seeing

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with respects to a preloaded map.

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While current Mars mission have landing ellipses
landing uncertainties of several kilometers,

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we want to reduce that to about a hundred
meters which will allow us to land near very

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interesting science sites that we couldn’t
get to in the past.

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Typically, the most interesting science sites
are very small, very precise locations on

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a planet or on a moon.

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This technology allows us to land very precisely,
really close to where we really want to go,

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where the scientists are really interested
to exploring the terrain and the ground.

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In the future, when we get ready to land humans
on Mars, we would first preposition habitats