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I had the same thought. The author talks about 25cm resolution cameras, and still being surprised by obstacles, but they are driving a rover that is more than 1
by SamBam 5y ago
I had the same thought. The author talks about 25cm resolution cameras, and still being surprised by obstacles, but they are driving a rover that is more than 10x smaller than the vehicle driven in the Martian.
This article claims that the Dhofar desert in Oman is one of the closest analogs to Mars. If I tried to control one of the Mars rovers through it, I'm sure I'd hit some nasty obstacles, but I wouldn't worry much about rocks when planning to traverse in a Jeep.
1. https://apnews.com/article/deserts-oman-yemen-ap-top-news-mars-a118550d15d34442b53f1474274b66f4 https://apnews.com/article/deserts-oman-yemen-ap-top-news-ma...
- Strilanc 5y agoThe author is also probably used to driving with tens of minutes of latency. I would guess the current Mars driving experience is more of a planning experience, where an unexpected obstacle ruins the plan and creates an hour of delay from replanning and recommunicating. Whereas a human driver on site would have just steered slightly to the left and not thought twice about it.