We owe the Perseverance landing to Dr. Swati Mohan. She is an Indian American aerospace engineer, and was the Guidance and Controls Operations Lead for the NASA Mars 2020 mission. She was responsible for ensuring the spacecraft that carries the rover was properly oriented during its travel to Mars and when landing on the planet’s surface.
Like many others, she apparently became interested in Space upon watching Star Trek at 9 years old. At 16, she took a physics class and the rest is history. She studied Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, before completing her master’s degree and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
She narrated the landing, explaining: “Perseverance will be the first mission to use Terrain-Relative Navigation. While it’s descending on the parachute, it will actually be taking images of the surface of Mars and determining where to go based on what it sees. This is finally like landing with your eyes open — having this new technology really allows Perseverance to land in much more challenging terrain than Curiosity, or any previous Mars mission, could.”
Hearty congratulations are due to Dr. Mohan! What an inspiration to females everywhere. I look forward to seeing more women engineers stepping up in the world. You go girl!
American Airlines confirmed a pilot’s report of his plane’s encounter with a cylindrical object while flying over New Mexico earlier this week.
UFO or cruise missile ?
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
Uncloaking on purpose to startle the primitives will be met with stern discipline.
PrP, thanks for reminding your readers that women are as important to the world as men are. I loved Michelle’s blog because she championed the female. I see that you are a kindred spirit.
I am proud to be an Indian woman. I wouldn’t have seen this if you had not published it. Thank you PrP.
The last uncloaking was a benefit from an accident.
The last uncloaking was a benefit from an accident.
The argument over methane mining rights on Uranus could approach the wars caused by the methane rights of Neptune.
Something more than first come first served needs to be established.
Are you positing that because the bigger, hence slower on arrival wish now to take what their lack of speed couldn’t provide?
You may wish to reposition that comment considering to whom it was made.
Threats, overt or implied will not be tolerated by “TE,” or “HG.”
The Gate works great even with its faults. Perhaps it is time to extend the Web and add another Gate to the 4 non terrestrial planets of this solar system. The peace of Law and Order may soon demand it.
We will not give up our right to mine Saturn’s small inner core. The “peace” can be maintained by proper observance of the rights arriving from first come edits. A Gate is not needed, nor will the implications of negotiation or those rights which come with it that it brings.
“TE” and “HG” did not cede any of their sovereign rights when they comprised “First Come, First Served” rights.
Any who doubt this, are welcome to disagree with all the circumstances that decision will entail.
Are you aliens suggesting a war over mining rights in our solar system? Why would you expect us humans to tolerate this?
Are you aliens suggesting a war over mining rights in our solar system? Why would you expect us humans to tolerate this?
You sound like a fool John. What do you think humans could possibly do about it?
/SB
So what’s eating you? You don’t like that your peaceful aliens are just as greedy as any human can be?
Way to change your subject. I never implied that.
/SB
PrP, thank you for bringing attention to your readers the contributions we women bring to the world when we are allowed to participate. I wish there was more of that here in India.
So what’s eating you? You don’t like that your peaceful aliens are just as greedy as any human can be?