NASA’s Swati Mohan Is The Star Of Perseverance Rover’s Epic Mars Landing

 The dignified and composed running commentary from one of the mission’s leaders has observers around the world taking notice.Swati Mohan is the lead of guidance and control operations for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. It implies that she has been entrusted with the responsibility to ensure that the spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover is aimed in the right direction. As Perseverance came in for its high-stakes landing on Thursday, Mohan provided much of the commentary too from mission control in the process of its tense entry, descent, and landing.

As a NASA veteran who was also on the Cassini mission, she has been on the Mars 2020 team since near its beginning in 2013.

She walked the world through the steps of slowing a spacecraft down from over 12,000 miles per hour for a soft landing in an ancient crater, Swati’s star began shining on social media. Mohan’s family relocated from India to the United States when she was a year old. A bindi could be spotted on her forehead as she coolly announced every step of Perseverance’s journey through her mask in mission control.

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