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Learning to Drive on Mars: Visual Multimodal Traversability Estimation for Off-World Navigation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

Autonomous navigation on Mars requires vehicles to distinguish between traversable terrains across diverse and visually challenging environments. However, progress in learning-based navigation for off-world environments has been limited by the lack of large-scale datasets. Since landing in Jezero Crater, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has traversed terrain ranging from sandy dunes, rocky patches, and flat bedrocks. As a result, this paper presents a dataset spanning 500 sols and 45km of trajectories driven by both human operators and the onboard planner, ENav. Our dataset contains grayscale

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