Rover Software Looks Promising

As a follow up to an article I found a few weeks ago, this article dicusses how the Martian rover did with its new navigation software in the driver's seat. This first live test of the program was promising as the rover behaved exactly how it was supposed to. NASA is hopeful that the software will continue to perform well, thus allowing the rovers a small degree of autonomy in their movements. The main perk of this new software will be the rover's ability to get itself out of dead ends without someone back on Earth manually driving it (which takes a while due to communication lag). The rover is not going to go wandering around by itself if this software is successful, but it will be able to navigate more intelligently than its blind turning proceedure of the past.