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SCIENCE --- Astronomy --- Roving vehicles (Astronautics) --- Planets --- Exploration. --- Exploration vehicles, Planetary --- Extraterrestrial roving vehicles --- Planetary exploration vehicles --- Rovers (Astronautics) --- Vehicles, Roving (Astronautics) --- Motor vehicles
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Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put their fingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning in 2004, however, a team of geologists and other planetary scientists did field science in a dark room in Pasadena, exploring Mars from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) by means of the remotely operated Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). Clustered around monitors, living on Mars time, painstakingly plotting each movement of the rovers and their tools, sensors, and cameras, these scientists reported that they felt as if they were on Mars themselves, doing field science. The MER created a virtual experience of being on Mars. In this book, William Clancey examines how the MER has changed the nature of planetary field science. NASA cast the rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, as "robotic geologists," and ascribed machine initiative ("Spirit collected additional imagery...") to remotely controlled actions. Clancey argues that the actual explorers were not the rovers but the scientists, who imaginatively projected themselves into the body of the machine to conduct the first overland expedition of another planet. The scientists have since left the darkened room and work from different home bases, but the rover-enabled exploration of Mars continues. Drawing on his extensive observations of scientists in the field and at the JPL, Clancey investigates how the design of the rover mission enables field science on Mars, explaining how the scientists and rover engineers manipulate the vehicle and why the programmable tools and analytic instruments work so well for them. He shows how the scientists felt not as if they were issuing commands to a machine but rather as if they were working on the red planet, riding together in the rover on a voyage of discovery.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZQSWSZnTYs&feature=youtube_gdata.
Roving vehicles (Astronautics) --- Space probes. --- Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.) --- Mars (Planet) --- Exploration. --- Geology. --- Deep space probes --- Probes, Space --- Exploration vehicles, Planetary --- Extraterrestrial roving vehicles --- Planetary exploration vehicles --- Rovers (Astronautics) --- Vehicles, Roving (Astronautics) --- United States. --- Space vehicles --- Motor vehicles
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Roving vehicles (Astronautics). --- Planets --- Exploration. --- Mars (Planet). --- Mars (Planet) --- Exploration --- Equipment and supplies. --- Motor vehicles --- Exploration vehicles, Planetary --- Extraterrestrial roving vehicles --- Planetary exploration vehicles --- Rovers (Astronautics) --- Vehicles, Roving (Astronautics) --- Red Planet --- Equipment
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For the first time ever, the senior architect and lead developer for a key enterprise system on NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission shares the secrets to one of the most difficult technology tasks of all-successful software developmentWritten in a conversational, brief, and to-the-point style, this book presents principles learned from the Mars Rover project that will help ensure the success of software developed for any enterprise systemAuthor Ronald Mak imparts anecdotes from his work on the Mars Rover and offers valuable lessons on software architecture, software e
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"Making Time on Mars is a book about people, robots, processes and intuitions working together to make time on Mars. In early 2004, for over ninety days NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers mission set their daily work activities on Earth according to "Mars time" clocks. Two local Mars times, one for each of the two Mars rovers, drove work timelines for all mission members. A successful mission that resulted in new discoveries and scientific knowledge, it is a fascinating case of how time and work relationships are produced through cultural features shaped by everyday work activities, organizational infrastructure, and social and historical context. Though time is an organizing principle in most workplaces, it is not traditionally a particularly exciting part of daily work. But, within the context of a mission to Mars, familiar time and work relationships are rendered strange, and strangely familiar. This book is based on empirical data collected during a one-year ethnographic field study conducted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory by the author, who was a mission member, and included working on Earth according to Mars time. An interdisciplinary disciplinary lens (anthropology, communication, history, organization studies, and science and technology studies) is used to examine organizing and conducting robotic science exploration on Mars. The book includes chapters on the historical context of the MER workplace (NASA and JPL); MER team people, robots, and workspace; the primary technology (time) for organizing co-located and remote workgroups; context on the limitations of the time/work relationship; professional identity and human-robot relationships that shaped working according to Mars time. The book's intent is to give the public a closer look, and a broader view, on a project that was publicly funded and with goals that included producing knowledge about natural work that would benefit all. It is also the intent to show, through the cultural production of Mars time for remote telerobotic science work, how contemporary and historical human-technology relationships inform assumptions about clock time as an unalterable, natural phenomenon. The organizational relationship between clock time and work, while still operational, is outdated. Organizational and societal values shape people's choices (and consequences of those choices) at work that include formally addressing problematic technology, holding institutions or individuals responsible for breakdowns, developing informal workarounds, and taking on additional work to support the technology that was intended to support people. These values and choices constitute some of the cultural norms that are part of the socio-technical infrastructure supporting space science and exploration. These relationships warrant examination and experimentation to uncouple what is natural about time from what can be changed in order for technology to support rather than drive human temporality at work"--
Hours of labor --- Social aspects. --- Alternative work schedules --- Children --- Labor, Hours of --- Work hours --- Work schedules --- Working-day --- Working hours --- Work --- Labor productivity --- Labor time --- Timekeeping --- Weekly rest-day --- Roving vehicles (Astronautics) --- Timetables. --- Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.) --- Officials and employees --- Time management. --- Mars (Planet) --- Exploration --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/Science Studies --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology --- Personnel management --- Exploration vehicles, Planetary --- Extraterrestrial roving vehicles --- Planetary exploration vehicles --- Rovers (Astronautics) --- Vehicles, Roving (Astronautics) --- Motor vehicles --- United States. --- Red Planet
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