Mars pathfinder mission Internet-based operations using WITS

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

16-20 May 1998

Firstpage

284

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 1998 lander and 2001, 2003, and 2005 rover missions to Mars

Keywords

Internet; aerospace computing; data visualisation; mobile robots; path planning; space research; Internet; JPL; Mars pathfinder mission; WITS; Web Interface for Telescience; data visualisation; path planning; space rovers; terrain feature; Collaboration; Collaborative tools; Computer architecture; Data visualization; Internet; Java; Laboratories; Mars; Process planning; Propulsion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Leuven

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4300-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1998.676400

Filename

676400