IceBite Blog: Remote Control For Mars Drill
This is pretty cool
On Thursday, Nov. 18th, we had a very exciting day. Our Mars drill was to be operated by a class of 5th grade students from Valley View School in Pleasanton, California. We got up early in the morning to set up the drill and the communication system and to make sure everything was ready for 11 am California time (8 am our time). Though it may seem that California is 3 hours ahead of us, in fact it is 21 hours behind us! Because we are very close to the International Date Line (IDL), our day starts 21 hours before California’s day. Thus we were already on Thursday while California was still on Wednesday.