Скачать или смотреть The 20-Minute Lag: Why Mars Rovers Must Drive Themselves

It seems simple, right? To explore Mars, just hook up a controller and drive the rover like it's a video game. But there's one massive, unchangeable law of physics that makes this impossible.

The 20-Minute Lag.

It can take up to 20 minutes for a signal, traveling at the speed of light, to get from Earth to Mars. By the time you see a cliff, your multi-billion dollar rover drove over it 19 minutes ago.

This video is the definitive explainer on WHY autonomous navigation isn't just a "nice to have" feature—it's the only way to explore another planet. We dive into:

► The "Nightmare Scenario" of remote-controlling a rover.
► The difference in lag between the Moon (2.5 seconds) and Mars (~40 mins round-trip).
► Early solutions: From "Direct-to-Earth" signals to the "Store-and-Execute" method.
► The Modern Solution: How the Orbiter Revolution solved the data volume problem.
► The AI Solution: How rovers evolved from "Stop-and-Think" (Spirit) to full "AutoNav" (Perseverance).

This isn't a technology problem; it's a physics problem. And the only solution is smarter AI.

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