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Re: Opportunity Is Preparing To Descend Into The Victoria Crater
They are very autonomous. I think CMU helped develop a new software to allow MER rovers to go i think 50 meters (which is a good portion of its day, if not all of its day, traveling) autonomously when previous was only a few meters. But I don't find it hard to have someone on the MER rovers at all time. At JPL, there are a lot a workers 24 hours a day and every day. But they are very autonomous, I'm sure of that. A conference room after a seminar i went to there was on that exact topic of mars rover autonomous programs.
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