Scott Maxwell (engineer)
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| name = Scott Maxwell
| image = Scott Maxwell.jpg
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| caption = Maxwell at a rover planning workstation
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| birth_place = North Carolina
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| nationality = American
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| known_for = Mars rover driver
| occupation = software engineer
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Scott Maxwell is an American engineer and a former Mars rover planning lead for Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.{{cite book|last=Doody|first=Dave|title=Deep space craft : an overview of interplanetary flight|year=2009|publisher=Springer|location=Berlin|isbn=978-3540895091|pages=270}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0706/A-postcard-from-Mars-NASA-rover-sends-stunning-panorama|title=A postcard from Mars: NASA rover sends stunning panorama|date=July 6, 2012|via=Christian Science Monitor}}
He was raised in North Carolina, and attended East Carolina University and UIUC.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2012/08/04/us/mars-rover-scott-maxwell/index.html|title=His other car is on Mars|author=Elizabeth Landau|date=August 4, 2012|website=CNN}}
During early periods of the MER mission, Maxwell and other rover drivers lived on Mars time, 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.planetary.org/articles/1799|title=I am totally hooked on Scott Maxwell's new Mars Exploration Rover blog|website=The Planetary Society}} Maxwell published an Android app that helps keep track with Mars time at the respective landing sites.[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.scottmaxwell.android.marsclock MarsClock - Apps on Google Play] He also authored the Mars and Me blog{{Cite web|url=http://marsandme.blogspot.com/|title=Mars and Me|website=marsandme.blogspot.com}} On February 8, 2013, he left JPL{{Cite web|url=https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?passive=1209600&osid=1&continue=https://plus.google.com/112648317373638762082/posts/3zFf2neouLN&followup=https://plus.google.com/112648317373638762082/posts/3zFf2neouLN|title=Sign in - Google Accounts|website=accounts.google.com}} to pursue a career at Google.{{Cite web|url=https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?passive=1209600&osid=1&continue=https://plus.google.com/112648317373638762082/posts/Bt7TfjhCaSX&followup=https://plus.google.com/112648317373638762082/posts/Bt7TfjhCaSX|title=Sign in - Google Accounts|website=accounts.google.com}}