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Vishnu Sridhar, a 27-year-old Indian-American lead system engineer with NASA’s Perseverance rover, has said that the most exciting work on the awe-inspiring Mars mission will h
Mars Rover s Most Exciting Work In Coming Weeks: Indian-American Techie Vishnu Sridhar, who is from Queens, New York, is a lead system engineer at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California for SuperCam on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
Updated: March 01, 2021 5:10 pm IST
Vishnu Sridhar said some of the rover s most exciting work will be done in coming weeks.(FILE)
Houston:
Vishnu Sridhar, a 27-year-old Indian-American lead system engineer with NASA s Perseverance rover, has said that the most exciting work on the awe-inspiring Mars mission will happen in the coming weeks.
Mr Sridhar, who is from Queens, New York, is a lead system engineer at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California for SuperCam on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which is on a mission to search for signs of past life on the Red Planet.
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Vishnu Sridhar, a 27-year-old Indian-American lead system engineer with NASA s Perseverance rover, has said that the most exciting work on the awe-inspiring Mars mission will happen in the coming weeks.
Sridhar, who is from Queens, New York, is a lead system engineer at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California for SuperCam on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which is on a mission to search for signs of past life on the Red Planet.
He said some of the rover s most exciting work will be done in the coming weeks. We re going to be taking more images of Mars, we re going to be shooting lasers with the SuperCam instrument, we re going to be recording audio with our microphone, and eventually, soon in near future, we are going to deploy our helicopter, and do the first powered flight on Mars, Sridhar told ABC7 channel.
New footage released Feb. 22 shows the Perseverance rover s entry, descent and landing on Mars. We re going to be taking more images of Mars, we re going to be shooting lasers with the SuperCam instrument, we re going to be recording audio with our microphone, and eventually, soon in near future, we are going to deploy our helicopter, and do the first powered flight on Mars, Sridhar said.
Sridhar said it s important that the mission is happening despite the COVID pandemic. NASA missions are obviously trying to explore and answer the fundamental questions and Perseverance is also trying to seek that, and eventually answer the question, was there life on Mars, was that was their life outside, Earth, and it was definitely a tough period for us during COVID and for everyone else around the globe, he said. And that s why I love the name of Perseverance because we persevered through the pandemic and there was a paradigm shift, we learned a lot how to do engineering remotely. And we
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