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Meet Swati Mohan, the Indian-American scientist who helped NASA land rover on Mars
Meet Swati Mohan, the Indian-American scientist who helped NASA land rover on Mars
PTI | Feb 19, 2021, 14:15 IST
Indian-American scientist, Swati Mohan, who led the guidance, navigation, and control operations of the Mars 2.Read More
WASHINGTON: As the world witnessed the historic landing of NASA s Perseverance rover on the Martian surface, it was Indian-American scientist, Swati Mohan, who led the guidance, navigation, and control operations of the Mars 2020 mission.
Mohan also confirmed that the rover had survived a particularly tricky plunge through the Martian atmosphere. Touchdown confirmed, exclaimed Mohan, who emigrated from India to the US when she was only a year old.
Touchdown confirmed: Indian-American scientist Swati Mohan played key role in NASA Mars rover landing PTI
Updated : Feb 19, 2021, 7:23 pm IST
As the team s operations lead, I am the primary point of communication between the GN&C subsystem and the rest of the project, said Mohan
Indian-American scientist Swati Mohan (Twitter@ParveenKaswan)
Washington: Indian-American scientist, Swati Mohan, who leads the guidance, navigation, and control operations of NASA s Mars 2020 mission played a pivotal role in landing the US space agency s historic Perseverance rover on the Martian surface on Friday.
Mohan was also the first to confirm that the rover had sucessfully touched down on the Martian surface after surviving a particularly tricky plunge through the atmosphere of the Red Planet.
Meet Swati Mohan, the Indian-American scientist who helped NASA land Perseverance rover on Mars
Indian-American scientist, Swati Mohan, led the guidance, navigation, and control operations of the Mars 2020 mission.
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historic landing of NASA s Perseverance rover on the Martian surface, it was
Indian-American scientist, Swati Mohan, who led the guidance, navigation, and control operations of the Mars 2020 mission.
Mohan also confirmed that the rover had survived a particularly tricky plunge through the Martian atmosphere. Touchdown confirmed, exclaimed Mohan, who had emigrated from India to the US when she was only a year old.
She says the Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Operations (GN&C) are eyes and ears of the spacecraft.