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Mohan, who emigrated from India to the US when she was only a year old, said the Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Operations (GN&C) are the “eyes and ears” of the spacecraft. Commenting on her team’s role in the current mission, Mohan said their job during the cruise phase heading towards Mars was to figure out how the spacecraft is oriented, and make sure it is pointed correctly in space—“solar arrays to sun, antenna to Earth, and maneuver the spacecraft to get it where we want to go”, she is quoted as saying in her bio page on the NASA website.

NASA's $2.2bn Perseverance LANDS on Mars: Rover survives 239 million-mile journey through space and a final 'seven minutes of terror' to embark on 2-year search for alien life in planet's crater as Biden calls NASA chief to congratulate him Biden calls NASA's chief to congratulate him, while sending out a tweet calling the landing 'historic' NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars following a 239 million-mile journey through space It traveled at around 12,000mph and deployed a parachute to slow down before landing safely on the surface The sky crane performed the same landing maneuver as w...