DocumentCode
2794409
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
fYear
2005
fDate
5-12 March 2005
Firstpage
4174
Lastpage
4185
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Aerospace Conference, 2005 IEEE
Conference_Location
Big Sky, MT
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8870-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/AERO.2005.1559722
Filename
1559722
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