Amazon Web Services (AWS) has explained the role of cloud computing in processing data sent back from NASA’s Perseverance explorer on Mars.
During Perseverance’s mission on Mars, the science and engineering data will be processed and hosted in AWS. The Mars Rover team is receiving hundreds of images from Mars each day from a record number of cameras, resulting in thousands of images over Perseverance’s time on the planet; using the cloud helps NASA Jet Propulsion Lab to store, process, and distribute this high volume of data, according to AWS.
