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.