Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars mission team gather in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with a certificate

WASHINGTON, Oct 12 : NASA's robotic Perseverance rover has now driven farther than any other vehicle on the surface of any world other than Earth, racking up 28.1 miles (45.2 km) since arriving on Mars in 2021, the US space agency said on Tuesday.The car-sized, six-wheeled rover reached the milestone 5-1/2 ye

WASHINGTON, Oct 12 : NASA's robotic Perseverance rover has now driven farther than any other vehicle on the surface of any world other than Earth, racking up 28.1 miles (45.2 km) since arriving on Mars in 2021, the US space agency said on Tuesday.The car-sized, six-wheeled rover reached the milestone 5-1/2 ye

This infographic illustrates the distances driven by various rovers on the surface of Earth’s Moon and Mars. Of the vehicles shown, the NASA Mars rovers

Rover tracks and a rocky Martian landscape are shown in this image captured by one of the navigation cameras (navcams) aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover

The rover has racked up 45.2km since arriving on Mars in 2021. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Advances in self-driving technology have made it easier to traverse distant worlds.