Summary:

• **What is Perseverance?** NASA's Perseverance rover is a robot car that explores Mars, the red planet far away in space. Scientists control it from Earth, but now it can plan some of its own driving routes using artificial intelligence (AI), which is like giving the robot a computer brain to make smart decisions.

• **How does AI help?** Instead of waiting for instructions from Earth every single time, Perseverance can now look at the ground around it and figure out the safest path to drive on its own. This is like how you might look at a playground and decide the best way to walk without tripping, but the rover does it using computer smarts!