The base is abandoned, but the U.S. Army left some waste behind.

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Several of NASA's space-based missions have observed Interstellar Comet 3I⧸ATLAS. As it approaches Mars, orbiters and rovers ...

NASA JPL’s Mars Global Localisation lets Perseverance pinpoint its position to 25cm in minutes, boosting autonomy.

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The Perseverance Mars rover's Mastcam-Z camera the Martian moon Phobos transit the Sun. See real-time and time-lapsed views ...

For five years the Mars Rover has been exploring without the aid of maps, GPS or even a brief idea of where it’s going without the help of people on Earth feeding it information ...

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

Mars Global Localization (MGL), a tech similar to GPS on Earth, lets Perseverance nail down its coordinates to about 10 inches.

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