NASA's Perseverance Rover Breaks the Distance Record for Driving Off-World
On October 11, NASA's Perseverance rover broke the record for the furthest distance traveled by a vehicle on another world. Initially set by NASA's Opportunity rover in 2014, Perseverance has now driven 28.1 miles, navigating—largely autonomously—boulder fields and sandpits on the Red Planet. We chatted with former Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley , the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of…
We haven't written up this one. Caltech News has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
