Autonomous vehicles on other planets face power, payload, and connectivity limitations. Since LIDAR systems are power-hungry, a camera-based system is more energy-efficient. Similarly, GPS signals ...

The Lidar payload is an experimental technology that NASA paid to test fly on the mission. It was not intended to serve a ...

Originally, the LiDAR scanner was supposed to be decommissioned ... but after NASA found a way to scoot the scanner over to make way for a DOD payload, the project looks to resume scanning the ...