Thursday - February 19, 2026
NASA's Perseverance Now Autonomously Pinpoints Its Location on Mars
February 19, 2026
PASADENA, California, Feb. 19 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news:

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NASA's Perseverance Now Autonomously Pinpoints Its Location on Mars

There is no GPS at the Red Planet, but a new technology called Mars Global Localization lets Perseverance determine precisely where it is -- without human help.

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, a . . .

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