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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.
Meet Swati Mohan, Indian-American scientist who dyed a strand of hair blue as she lead the NASA Mars mission timesnownews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesnownews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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It was Clyde William Tombaugh, an American astronomer, who discovered Pluto in 1930.
Here are 10 things you need to know about Pluto as contained in United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) real time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration called “Science Solar System Exploration.”
1. Pluto is about 1,400 miles (2,380 km) wide. That’s about half the width of the United States, or 2/3 the width of Earth’s moon.
2. Pluto orbits the Sun about 3.6 billion miles (5.8 billion km) away on average, about 40 times as far as Earth, in a region called the Kuiper Belt.
3. A year on Pluto is 248 Earth years. A day on Pluto lasts 153 hours, or about six Earth days.
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A statue of a Kansa Indian atop the Kansas Statehouse stands in the foreground as Saturn, top, and Jupiter, below, are seen Saturday in Topeka, Kan. The two planets are drawing closer to each other in the sky as they head towards a âgreat conjunctionâ tonight, where the two giant planets will appear a tenth of a degree apart.
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