The majority of her research is on robotic spacecraft teams at NASA, and how the teams’ social organization affects and reflects their robots’ activities and scientific results. Janet’s first book, Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars is based on over two years of working with the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, and will be published by University of Chicago Press in early 2015. She is also working on an ethnography of the Cassini Mission to Saturn, thanks to a National Science Foundation Grant in Socio Computational Systems.