NASA has announced that is going to upgrade its ancient 30-year old systems with state of the art technology. The next-gen computing systems are going to be around a 100 times faster.
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Nearing the July launch window, the upcoming Mars rover has received a set of six flight wheels and a parachute that will help maneuver the heaviest payload in the history of Mars exploration.
Out of 28,000 entries to the "Name the Rover" contest, NASA has announced that 13-year-old Alexander Mather's submission — Perseverance —will be the name for the upcoming Mars 2020 rover.
The new panorama captured by the Mars Curiosity Rover is a stitched amalgamation of 1.8 billion pixels and over 1,000 individual shots taken on the rocky surface of Mount Sharp on Mars.
The rover will be undergoing a series of tests that are meant to gauge the durability of aquatic rovers. It will also probe into the life at the ice-water interface, among other things.