Making Time on Mars
Book description
An examination of how the daily work of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers was organized across three sites on two planets using local Mars time.
In 2004, mission scientists and engineers working with NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) remotely operated two robots at different sites on Mars for ninety consecutive days.…
Why read it?
1 author picked Making Time on Mars as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If you think you have a crazy schedule, imagine what it would be like to go to work every day on Mars, while living and working on Earth.
Mars’ day is thirty-six minutes longer than ours, so your standing daily meeting at 9am will begin tomorrow at 9:36am, the day after at 10:12am…and eventually, at two in the morning. I loved learning about how the Mars Exploration Rover scientists at NASA ate endless ice cream and checked their Mars-time watches in an attempt to turn their own bodily clocks off and stay awake despite constant jetlag.
Reading about how they…
From Janet's list on NASA and space exploration, from a human perspective.
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