Scott Maxwell is an American engineer and a former Mars rover planning lead for

Mars Exploration Rover NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission was a robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, ''Spirit (rover), Spirit'' and ''Opportunity (rover), Opportunity'', exploring the planet Mars. It began in 2003 with the launch of the two rove ...

s (MER) Spirit and Opportunity at the

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in Pasadena, California. He was raised in North Carolina, and attended East Carolina University and UIUC. During early periods of the MER mission, Maxwell and other rover drivers lived on

Mars time Though no standard exists, numerous calendars and other timekeeping approaches have been proposed for the planet Mars. The most commonly seen in the scientific literature denotes the time of year as the number of degrees on its orbit from the n ...

, in which each Martian "Sol" (day) is an additional 37 minutes, 23 seconds longer than Earth days, while his wife continued to live on Earth time. Maxwell published an Android app that helps keep track with Mars time at the respective landing sites. He also authored the ''Mars and Me'' blog On February 8, 2013, he left JPL to pursue a career at

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