Making time on mars
"In 2004, mission scientists and engineers working with NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) remotely operated two robots at different sites on Mars for ninety consecutive days. An unusual feature of this successful mission was that it operated on Mars time--the daily work was organized across three sites on two planets according to two Martian time zones. In Making Time on Mars, Zara Mirmalek shows that this involved more than a resetting of wristwatches; the team's struggle to synchronize wit…
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- Full title :Making time on mars / Zara Mirmalek.
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"In 2004, mission scientists and engineers working with NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) remotely operated two robots at different sites on Mars for ninety consecutive days. An unusual feature of this successful mission was that it operated on Mars time--the daily work was organized across three sites on two planets according to two Martian time zones. In Making Time on Mars, Zara Mirmalek shows that this involved more than a resetting of wristwatches; the team's struggle to synchronize with Mars time involved technological and communication breakdowns, informal workarounds, and extra work to support the technology that was intended to support people. Her account of how NASA created an entirely new temporality for the MER mission offers insights about the assumptions behind the organizational relationship between clock time and work."--Page 4 de la couverture.
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- Publication Date:2020
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- Publisher(s):The MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020
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- Description:vii, 200 pages, 2 pages de planches non-numérotées : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780262043854, 0262043858
- oclc:on1237370366
- LC Classification:QB641
Table of Contents
MER: an interplanetary workplace and community -- Time at work in space -- The sound of no clock ticking -- Dreaming of space, imagining membership -- Membering the rovers: humans and robots as coworkers.
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