Title :
Choosing Mars time: analysis of the Mars Exploration Rover experience
Author :
Bass, Deborah S. ; Wales, Roxana C. ; Shalin, Valerie L.
Author_Institution :
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
Abstract :
This paper focuses on the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission´s management decision to work on Mars time and the implications of that decision on the tactical surface operations process as personnel planned activities and created a new command load for work on each Martian sol. The paper also looks at tools that supported the complexities of Mars time operations, and makes some comparisons between Earth and Mars time scheduling
Keywords :
Mars; aerospace instrumentation; planetary rovers; MER mission management decision; Mars Exploration Rover experience analysis; Mars time; Martian sol; command load; personnel planned activities; tactical surface operations process; Bars; Earth; Laboratories; Mars; NASA; Personnel; Planetary orbits; Propulsion; Relays; Space vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 2005 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Big Sky, MT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8870-4
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2005.1559722
