The Mars Pathfinder mission Internet-based WITS rover planning and simulation system

Author

Backes, Paul G. ; Tso, Kam S. ; Tharp, Gregory K.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

21-28 Mar 1998

Firstpage

151

Abstract

The Web Interface for Telescience (WITS) is an Internet-based tool that the Mars Pathfinder mission used for both mission operations at JPL and public outreach. WITS enables the viewing of downlinked images and results in various ways, terrain feature measurement and annotation, and planning of daily mission activities. WITS is written in the Java language and is accessible by mission scientists and the general public via a web browser. The public can use WITS to plan and simulate their own rover missions. WITS will also be used in the planned 1998 lander and 2001 and 2003 rover missions to Mars

Keywords

Internet; Mars; astronomical techniques; astronomy computing; client-server systems; digital simulation; image processing; user interfaces; 2001 rover mission; 2003 rover mission; JPL; Java language; Mars Pathfinder mission; Telescience; WITS rover planning; Web Interface; annotation; daily mission activities; downlinked images; planning; simulation; terrain feature measurement; Collaboration; Collaborative tools; Computer architecture; Data visualization; Internet; Java; Land use planning; Mars; Path planning; Process planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Snowmass at Aspen, CO

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4311-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.1998.687906

Filename

687906