Meet Dr Swati Mohan, Indian-American scientist who played key role in NASA s Perseverance landing
Dr Swati Mohan was the first to confirm that the rover had successfully touched down on the Martian surface after surviving a particularly tricky plunge through the atmosphere of the Red Planet
BusinessToday.In | February 24, 2021 | Updated 10:19 IST
Dr Swati completed her bachelor s degree from Cornell University and her MS and PhD from MIT
When NASA s rover, Perseverance, gently landed on the surface of Mars last week after seven months in space, millions of miles away in the US space agency s control room, a woman s voice rang out: Touchdown confirmed! The announcement was from Indian American scientist Dr Swati Mohan the woman who played a pivotal role in the landing of the historic craft.
Nasa’s Perseverance Rover lands on Mars to renew search for extinct life
Nasa’s Perseverance Rover lands on Mars to renew search for extinct life
KENNETH CHANG | NYT News Service | Feb 19, 2021, 07:43 IST
In this illustration made available by Nasa, The aeroshell containing the Perseverance rover guides itself tow.Read More
NEW YORK: Nasa safely landed a new robotic rover on Mars on Thursday, beginning its most ambitious effort in decades to directly study whether there was ever life on the now barren red planet.
While the agency has completed other missions to Mars, the $2.7 billion robotic explorer, named Perseverance, carries scientific tools that will bring advanced capabilities to the search for life beyond Earth. The rover, about the size of a car, can use its sophisticated cameras, lasers that can analyze the chemical makeup of Martian rocks and ground-penetrating radar to identify the chemical signatures of fossilized microbial life that may have thrived on Mars w
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Perseverance Rover is doing great and successfully transmitting data back to Earth after a soft landing on the surface of Mars, National.