{"id":15020,"date":"2026-08-08T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15020"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:01:04","slug":"the-first-self-driving-vehicle-on-mars-has-proven-to-be-a-smashing-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15020","title":{"rendered":"The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Eric Berger<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 8, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Sometime next week, NASA&#8217;s newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world.<\/p>\n<p>The automobile-sized rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/mars-2020-perseverance\/location-map\/\">will traverse<\/a> beyond 45.16 km (28.06 miles) across the Martian surface. In doing so it will break the previous distance record held by the long-lived Opportunity rover, which ceased communications with NASA in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>So how did Perseverance reach this record-setting distance in just a third of the time?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/08\/the-first-self-driving-vehicle-on-mars-has-proven-to-be-a-smashing-success\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/08\/the-first-self-driving-vehicle-on-mars-has-proven-to-be-a-smashing-success\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/08\/the-first-self-driving-vehicle-on-mars-has-proven-to-be-a-smashing-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Berger &bull; August 8, 2026 Sometime next week, NASA&#8217;s newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world. The automobile-sized rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, will traverse beyond 45.16 km (28.06 miles) across the Martian surface. In doing so it<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15020\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}