Curiosity rover loses orientation on Mars
While NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars is still connected to the Curiosity team on Earth, its latest mission update reports that the rover seems to have suffered from a loss of orientation, losing its knowledge of local terrain, the directions of its sensors and joint positions. The rover is frozen in place while Curiosity researchers are attempting to identify and resolve the problem.
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NASA inviting public to navigate its rovers around Mars
NASA has an algorithm called SPOC (Soil Property and Object Classification), which labels different types of Mars terrain such as boulders or sand to create maps that the rover driver can use when maneuvering the vehicles.
To help with the task of training the algorithm, NASA is inviting the public to help classify bits of martian terrain.
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