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NASA's Spirit Rover Crew Are 'Slaves To Mars'

Posted by timothy on from the absolute-mars-corrupts-absolutely dept.

Quirk writes "The Telegraph has a bit on the challenge faced by the 280 team members who have had to leave Earth time behind and attune their circadian clock to the Mars solar day or 'sol'. '...the team's wake-up times and meal times two weeks after the landing will have shifted by nine hours.'"

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  1. ITYM 8 light-MINUTES. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    1 AU / c = 8.31675359 minutes.

  2. Shift workers are used to this by skware · · Score: 3, Informative

    I worked as a shiftworker for the last 11 months. These were 12 hour shifts, 7am-7pm or 7pm-7am, 2 days followed by two nights followed by 4 days off. To work my sleep best I'd sleep 7 times every 8 days or effectively increase my days by about 3.5 hours per day. I got out of that job recently but have found that my circadian rhythm hasn't returned to normal yet (It's 3am here atm)