https://medium.com/@billyknell/nasa-caught-in-another-martian-photo-scam-81f8f5b9adee
That is pretty damn cool.
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>NASA has revealed it repurposed the processor the Perseverance rover used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, to help the rolling robot navigate the Red Planet autonomously “for potentially unlimited distances.” The aerospace agency revealed the hack last week in a post that says it used the rover’s Helicopter Base Station (HBS) because its processor is 100 times faster than the rover’s other kit. NASA has previously said the HBS runs a Qualcomm 801 processor, a model the mobile chip giant lists as running four custom Krait CPUs using Arm-compatible cores of the company’s own design, an Adreno 330 GPU and a Hexagon digital signal processor. The Register’s coverage reports the models on Mars run at 2.26GHz and packs 2GB RAM plus 32GB flash memory, and that NASA ran Linux on the machine.
That is pretty damn cool.
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From the post:
>>NASA has revealed it repurposed the processor the Perseverance rover used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, to help the rolling robot navigate the Red Planet autonomously “for potentially unlimited distances.”
The aerospace agency revealed the hack last week in a post that says it used the rover’s Helicopter Base Station (HBS) because its processor is 100 times faster than the rover’s other kit.
NASA has previously said the HBS runs a Qualcomm 801 processor, a model the mobile chip giant lists as running four custom Krait CPUs using Arm-compatible cores of the company’s own design, an Adreno 330 GPU and a Hexagon digital signal processor. The Register’s coverage reports the models on Mars run at 2.26GHz and packs 2GB RAM plus 32GB flash memory, and that NASA ran Linux on the machine.