No, the chatbot did not crash Perseverance. Since 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has achieved a number of historic milestones, including sending back the first audio recordings from Mars . Now, nearly five years after landing on the Red Planet, it just achieved another feat. This past December, Perseverance successfully completed a route through a section of the Jezero crater plotted by Anthropic's Claude chatbot, marking the first time NASA has used a large language model to pilot the car-sized robot. Between December 8 and 10, Perseverance drove approximately 400 meters (about 437 yards) through a field of rocks on the Martian surface mapped out by Claude.

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped a bizarre, coral-shaped rock on the surface of Mars, sparking fresh speculation about signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. The twisted, alien-like formation was sculpted by wind and time, according to NASA, which said it likely formed billions of years ago when water once flowed across the Martian surface. The images have taken the internet by storm, with some users claiming: 'Corals are true signs of ancient life forms along with the ancient rivers. This is a huge discovery!!' Another wrote on X: 'There's your Mars fossilized foreign life material evidence everybody's been asking for. That's obviously been there all along.'

One of the fundamental limiting factors in planetary exploration is the autonomous capabilities of planetary exploration rovers. This study proposes a novel methodology for trustworthy autonomous multi-robot teams which incorporates data from multiple sources (HiRISE orbiter imaging, probability distribution maps, and on-board rover sensors) to find efficient exploration routes in Jezero crater. A map is generated, consisting of a 3D terrain model, traversability analysis, and probability distribution map of points of scientific interest. A three-stage mission planner generates an efficient route, which maximises the accumulated probability of identifying points of interest. A 4D RRT* algorithm is used to determine smooth, flat paths, and prioritised planning is used to coordinate a safe set of paths. The above methodology is shown to coordinate safe and efficient rover paths, which ensure the rovers remain within their nominal pitch and roll limits throughout operation.

NASA's Perseverance Rover has collected a sample of Martian rock to be returned to Earth which could contain signs of life. But don't get too excited yet, as this particular tube won't reach a terrestrial laboratory where it can be studied for another 10 years or so. It has been roaming Mars to look for sampling sites that might contain ancient microbes and organics for almost a year now. In that time, it has completed its first of four search campaigns, which focused on the crater floor and the base of the Neretva Vallis delta. NASA's Perseverance Rover has collected a sample of Martian rock which could contain signs of life. NASA's Perseverance rover (pictured) chooses a sample using its suite of onboard instruments to detect whether organic molecules are present in some rock before coring.

NASA's Perseverance rover has been aptly named because -- nearly two months after beginning its search into past life on Mars -- it has still yet to find any viable samples. The car-sized robot began its mission to find ancient biomarkers in the Martian clay on April 22, which could indicate if alien life ever existed on the Red Planet. It has been roaming around an ancient delta to look for sampling sites that might contain ancient microbes and organics. The rover then drills down to extract a specimen that it plans to leave at the base of the delta to be retrieved in future missions. However, NASA has since revealed that, so far, no samples have been successfully collected. The fragile clay materials the rover targets have been known to fracture, crack and crumble during the abrasion and coring process.

Nasa's Perseverance rover has reached a key moment in its search for evidence of past life on Mars. The car-sized robot, which landed on the Red Planet in February last year, will today (Tuesday) begin climbing up an ancient delta to look for sampling sites that might contain ancient microbes and organics. This ascent will be for reconnaissance, as Perseverance goes'walkabout' looking for rocks with the best chance of holding secrets about whether alien life once existed on Mars. As it makes its way back down, the rover will then collect some of these specimens from the Jezero Crater and leave the samples at the base of the delta to be retrieved by future missions. Nasa's Perseverance rover (pictured) has reached a key moment in its search for evidence of past life on Mars. The engineering cameras give detailed information in colour about the terrain the rover has to cross.

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring Mars for signs of fossilized life, but it could be thrown off by'false biosignatures,' fossil-like specimens that are actually created by chemical processes, according to a new study. Astrobiologists from the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford note that the rocks on the Red Planet are likely to have'numerous types of non-biological deposits,' which could make it harder to decipher what is rock and what could be signs of ancient life, assuming it once existed. The astrobiologists say that telling the difference is important for not only the Perseverance rover mission and other current NASA missions to Mars, but future missions as well. There are'dozens of processes' and potentially more yet to be discovered – that are capable of producing deposits that look like bacterial cells and carbon-based molecules that look like the known building blocks of life. Looking for life on Mars (including the Perseverance rover, shown) could be thrown off by'false biosignatures,' fossil-like specimens that are created by chemical processes The rocks on the Red Planet likely have a number of non-biological deposits,' making it harder to decipher what's rock and what could be life'We have been fooled by life-mimicking processes in the past,' the study's co-author, Dr Julie Cosmidis, said in a statement. 'On many occasions, objects that looked like fossil microbes were described in ancient rocks on Earth and even in meteorites from Mars, but after deeper examination they turned out to have non-biological origins.

Nasa's Perseverance rover has drilled into its second rock with a view to collecting samples, after the first one strangely went missing. The space agency has chosen the rock "Rochette", located on a ridge called "Citadelle" near the Jezero Crater on the Red Planet, for examination. A drilling tool on the rover's two metre-long robotic arm will sink into the rock and transfer material into a capture tube that is only slightly thicker than a pencil. The Citadelle ridge is capped with a layer of rock that seems to be resistant to wind erosion, which means it's likely the rock will endure the pressure of drilling. This is a vital quality as Nasa's previous attempt to retrieve a sample resulted in an empty tube.

After NASA's Perseverance rover came up empty in its attempt to collect rock samples from Mars earlier this month, it's ready for another go-round. The US space agency said on Thursday that the rover will abrade, or scrape, a rock nicknamed'Rochelle' with a tool on its robotic arm. By scraping the rock, it will let researchers see inside to see if it's worth taking a sample, which would'slightly thicker than a pencil,' NASA wrote in a statement. After NASA's Perseverance rover came up empty in its attempt to collect rock samples from Mars earlier this month, it's ready for another go-round. The US space agency said on Thursday that the rover will abrade, or scrape, a rock nicknamed'Rochelle' (pictured) with a tool on its robotic arm If the team decides the rock is good to go, the sampling process would start next week.

NASA's Ingenuity made history as the first powered vehicle to fly on another planet and with this great success, the space agency is already looking to design its predecessor that aims to be bigger and better. The roboticists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been sketching out what they call the Mars Science Helicopter (MSH), a 66-pound hexacopter capable of collecting samples from the Red Planet. Ingenuity, on the other hand, weighs just four pounds and features only two rotors. Unlike Ingenuity, which is a scout for the Perseverance rover, MSH would carry and deploy scientific payloads and be given its own formation on Mars to explore for ancient signs of life. On Earth, minerals found at sites similar to Mawrth Vallis preserve organic material – and that is what NASA hopes to find on Mars.