--- title: Tracks along the longest drive on another world | daily.dev description: NASA's Perseverance rover set a new record for the farthest distance driven on another celestial body, reaching 45.22 kilometers (28.10 miles) on Sol 2006. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tracks-along-the-longest-drive-on-another-world-xguzqnigl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tracks along the longest drive on another world | daily.dev og:description: NASA's Perseverance rover set a new record for the farthest distance driven on another celestial body, reaching 45.22 kilometers (28.10 miles) on Sol 2006. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tracks-along-the-longest-drive-on-another-world-xguzqnigl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XGuZqniGL.png og:image:alt: Tracks along the longest drive on another world og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tracks along the longest drive on another world **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NASA's Perseverance rover set a new record for the farthest distance driven on another celestial body, reaching 45.22 kilometers (28.10 miles) on Sol 2006. The team raised the rover's tilt limit to 24 degrees, reduced belly pan clearance to 20 centimeters, and nearly doubled steer motor current limits to handle tough terrain. A new autonomous drive capability called onboard Global Localization reuses the Ingenuity Helicopter Base Station's processor to locate the rover using ground and orbital imagery. Since that processor lacks radiation hardening, the team built a software-based fix for the resulting bit flips. They are also exploring generative SI to help propose solutions to steer AutoNav along the many legs of a strategic path. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How far has NASA's Perseverance rover driven on Mars? Perseverance reached 45.22 kilometers (28.10 miles) on Sol 2006 (Oct. 11, 2026), setting a new record for the farthest distance driven on another celestial body. Its engineering twin on Earth received a plaque from Guinness World Records marking the achievement. _Space engineering fans follow autonomous rover milestones like this one on daily.dev._ ### What is onboard Global Localization (GBLC) on the Perseverance rover? GBLC is an autonomous drive capability that compares ground and orbital imagery to pinpoint the rover's position in global coordinates at the end of a drive, functioning like GPS on a world without satellites. It repurposes the high-speed commercial processor inside the Ingenuity Helicopter Base Station and lets Perseverance drive longer distances without human intervention. _Engineers exploring onboard autonomy design patterns track cases like this on daily.dev._ ### How does NASA handle radiation-induced bit flips in unhardened Mars rover hardware? The coprocessor used for Global Localization, borrowed from the Ingenuity Helicopter Base Station, is not hardened against Martian surface radiation, which induces transient bit flips in memory. The team developed a software-based approach to radiation hardening to keep the system functioning reliably despite the unshielded hardware. _Developers designing fault-tolerant software for harsh environments follow writeups like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [NASA’s new rover prototype drove 16 miles in a week, 10 times faster than anything it has on Mars](https://daily.dev/posts/nasa-s-new-rover-prototype-drove-16-miles-in-a-week-10-times-faster-than-anything-it-has-on-mars-mcsho6byg) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hackaday Links: October 17, 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/hackaday-links-october-17-2026-w487ehnsh) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [NASA Uses Mars Global Localization As GNSS Replacement For The Perseverance Rover](https://daily.dev/posts/nasa-uses-mars-global-localization-as-gnss-replacement-for-the-perseverance-rover-7xbtam8st) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Ingenious Fixes Keeping the Curiosity Rover Rolling](https://daily.dev/posts/the-ingenious-fixes-keeping-the-curiosity-rover-rolling-mayqszzuu) · IEEE Spectrum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Mars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet – peek inside their NASA control room](https://daily.dev/posts/mars-rovers-give-scientists-a-ground-level-view-of-the-red-planet-peek-inside-their-nasa-control-r-lfmpgc0yh) · Robohub · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#robotics](https://daily.dev/tags/robotics), [#nasa](https://daily.dev/tags/nasa) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/tracks-along-the-longest-drive-on-another-world-xguzqnigl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Tracks along the longest drive on another world","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tracks-along-the-longest-drive-on-another-world-xguzqnigl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/tracks-along-the-longest-drive-on-another-world-xguzqnigl"},"datePublished":"2026-10-30T20:39:48.667Z","dateModified":"2026-10-30T20:40:14.189Z","description":"NASA's Perseverance rover set a new record for the farthest distance driven on another celestial body, reaching 45.22 kilometers (28.10 miles) on Sol 2006. 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