After three months on
"Martian time," a team of scientists, which supervise NASA's Mars
rover Curiosity, went to work on a standard work schedule, "Earth
time."
Martian day, called
"Salt", lasts for 40 minutes longer than the earth, so the beginning
of the shift to the members of the scientific team was shifted a few hours each
week in advance. Rover team includes more than 200 engineers from the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory of NASA and about 400 researchers, mainly from other
academic institutions.
