The recent Mars Perseverance Landing by NASA overcame many of the same challenges, for similar reasons that directional drillers face when landing or Geosteering oil & gas wells
- Mars landers are steered for hazard avoidance , Drillers steer to find payzones
- Both have ellipse of uncertainty reasons for requiring Geosteering/Geohazard avoidance
- Similar technology enablers are allowing large achievements of both Deep Space Landings and Wellbore placements
- Improvements in Computing Power – speed- memory
- Improvements in Sensor resolution and robustness
- Improvements in automated algorithms
- Slow real time data resolution (data comms rate) makes Automation Necessary, and limits timely human intervention
- Both solutions rely on fast acquisition sensor data, gathered in a highly dynamic environment
- Modern GPS technology is not available for solving either challenge
- NASA used a process they call “Terrain Relative Navigation” to make the final decent to Mars with Perseverance, Geosteering is a similar process used to place horizontal wells.
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