Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars

Hera's autonomous surface feature tracking during Mars flyby

As ESA’s Hera planetary defence mission flew past planet Mars it autonomously locked onto dozens of impact craters and other prominent surface features to track them over time, in a full-scale test of the self-driving technology that the spacecraft will employ to navigate around its target asteroids.

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