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Showing posts with label Curiosity time on earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curiosity time on earth. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The team switched from Mars Curiosity time on earth


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.