{"id":3923994,"date":"2026-02-18T13:03:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-mars-gps-lets-perseverance-pinpoint-its-location-within-25-centimeters\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:03:39","slug":"new-mars-gps-lets-perseverance-pinpoint-its-location-within-25-centimeters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-mars-gps-lets-perseverance-pinpoint-its-location-within-25-centimeters\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8216;Mars GPS&#8217; lets Perseverance pinpoint its location within 25 centimeters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Imagine you&#8217;re all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That&#8217;s what NASA&#8217;s Perseverance rover has been experiencing since landing on Mars five years ago. Though it carries time-tested tools for determining its general location, the rover has needed operators on Earth to tell it precisely where it is\u2014until now.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-mars-gps-perseverance-centimeters.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you&#8217;re all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That&#8217;s what NASA&#8217;s Perseverance rover has been experiencing since landing on Mars five years ago. Though it carries time-tested [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}