The flight will be featured in a documentary film called My Teacher in Space, which will showcase Murali's flight but also her work in expanding and cultivating opportunities for students at Glen Hills middle school.
The flight will be featured in a documentary film called My Teacher in Space, which will showcase Murali's flight but also her work in expanding and cultivating opportunities for students at Glen Hills middle school.
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Darian Dixon in front of a Curiosity rover model, which landed on Mars in 2012. He was part of the team that put together the Curiosity gigapixel the highest-resolution picture ever taken on any exoplanetary body.
On February 18, the Perseverance rover landed on Mars after traveling eight months through space. This is NASA’s first big return to the red planet since Curiosity landed there in 2011. One Milwaukee native and UW-Milwaukee alumni has been fortunate enough to work on both rover missions.
Darian Dixon is a mission operations specialist at Malin Space Science Systems for the Perseverance rover otherwise known as a Mars rover operator. His job includes instructing some of the cameras on the rover to capture stills so that scientists can continue to learn more about the planet s atmosphere, landscape and soils.
WATCH: UW-Milwaukee holds virtual commencement for Class of 2021
MILWAUKEE The UW-Milwaukee Class of 2021 is celebrating graduation Sunday with a virtual commencement ceremony.
The ceremony features a keynote address by UWM alum Darian Dixon, who is a spacecraft operations engineer for the Mars Perseverance rover.
Over 3,000 students will receive their degrees Sunday.
You can watch there ceremony below.
UW-Milwaukee to hold virtual commencement on May 16
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will award more than 3,400 degrees in a virtual ceremony on Sunday, May 16.
The university will present 2,377 bachelor’s degrees, 731 master’s degrees, 143 doctoral degrees, 36 flexible option degrees and 135 associate degrees. The oldest degree bachelor’s degree recipient is 73-years-old, and the youngest is 19.
Officials say Student Association President Emma Mae Weber, who is graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Letters & Science, will be the student speaker.
Officials also say this years commencement speaker will be Darian Dixon, a UWM alum who plays a key role on NASA’s $3 billion Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in February.