Is gravity on other planets adequate to provide self-orientation cues?
- The perceived direction of “up” is determined by gravity, visual information, and an internal estimate of body orientation (Mittelstaedt, 1983; Dyde et al., 2006). Is the gravity level found on other worlds sufficient to maintain gravity’s contribution to this perception? Difficulties in stability reported anecdotally by astronauts on the lunar surface (NASA 1972) suggest that the moon’s gravity may not be, despite this value being far above the threshold for detecting linear acceleration. Knowing how much gravity is needed to provide a reliable orientation cue is required for training and preparing astronauts for future missions to the moon, mars and beyond.
Document Type: | Conference Object |
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Language: | English |
Author: | L. Harris, R. Herpers, T. Hofhammer, A. Noppe, M. Jenkin |
Parent Title (English): | 6th International Congress of Medicine in Space and Extreme Environments (ICMS). September 16-19, 2014, Berlin, Germany |
First Page: | 41 |
Publication year: | 2014 |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Informatik |
Institute of Visual Computing (IVC) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
Entry in this database: | 2016/04/22 |