This is just the coolest programming shit.
“During testing, the team repeatedly found the rover’s position was off by 1 millimeter,” the post explains. “They discovered damage to about 25 bits – a minuscule fraction of the processor’s 1 gigabyte of memory – and developed a solution to isolate those bits while the algorithm runs.”
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/perseverance_rover_soc_navigation_upgrade/
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