Updated Feb 19, 2021 | 14:31 IST
She was calm, composed and in complete control as she spelt out every phase of NASA s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover landing on the Red planet. Meet Dr Swati Mohan - born in India - now a NASA achiever. Dr Swati Mohan of NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was Guidance, Navigation and Controls (GN&C) Operations for Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover mission. | Photo Credit: Twitter
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Indian academic talent is celebrated across the world. Indian-origin scientists grace responsible positions in space organisations across the world.
In NASA s mission to Mars to send Perseverance Rover, the lead engineer for Guidance, Navigation and Controls (GN&C) Operations was a young Indian woman.
Biden calls NASA s chief to congratulate him, while sending out a tweet calling the landing historic
NASA s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars following a 239 million-mile journey through space
It entered Martian atmosphere at around 12,000mph and deployed a parachute to slow down before landing
The sky crane maneuver first used on Curiosity in 2012 was employed to get Perseverance to the surface
Perseverance will search for biosignatures in the Jezero crater that is said to be an extinct lake
It will collect samples and cache them across Mars for a separate mission in 2023 to retrieve
Shortly after landing the rover sent back its first images of the Martian surface to NASA headquarters
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19 February 2021
Nasa’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission, the agency’s fifth rover to land on the Red Planet, touched down in Jezero Crater at around 3:55 pm EST (12:55 pm PST) on Thursday (18 February 2021), engineers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the mission is managed, have confirmed.
The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars, after a 203-day journey traversing 472 million kilometres (293 million miles).
Packed with groundbreaking technology, the Mars 2020 mission launched on 30 July 2020, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the Perseverance rover mission marks an ambitious first step in the effort to collect Mars samples and return them to Earth.
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