Washington [US], March 5 (ANI): President Joe Biden on Thursday (local time) congratulated the NASA team responsible for the success of the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars earlier this month. He praised the team at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) / California Institute of Technology, including Dr. Swati Mohan, the Indian-American aeronautical engineer, who was one of the many people at the forefront of the development and the landing system for the robber.
Biden spoke to Dr Mohan during a video conference and said that the Indian-Americans were ‘taking over the country’. Mohan thanked Biden for interacting with them, but the president said he had the honor of dealing with the team.
“It’s an incredible honor. Indians – of descent – Americans are taking over the country. You (Mohan), my Vice President (Kamala Harris), my Speech Writer (Vinay Reddy), I tell you what. But thank you. You guys. is incredible, ‘Biden told Dr Mohan.
Dr. Mohan, who skillfully landed the spacecraft, works at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She is one of the many Indian women scientists, engineers and missile developers who leave a trail for future generations.
In the course of about ten minutes, Biden threw on the kudus and cast the landing as an important bright spot that came to the country at a difficult time.
“What you did was restore a dose of confidence in the American people. They started wondering about us. They began to wonder if we were still the country we had always believed. You did it. ‘
“We can land a rover on Mars, we can defeat a pandemic, and with science, hope and vision, there is not a damn thing we as a country can not do,” he added.
During the interaction, the president also spoke to Michael Watkins, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and praised the NASA team for doing an ‘incredible job’.
“It’s so much bigger than landing Perseverance on Mars,” Biden told NASA team members. “It’s about the American spirit. And you brought it back. ‘
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover got its first high-definition appearance in its new home in the Jezero crater on February 21, after turning its mast, or ‘head’, 360 degrees, allowing the Mastcam-Z instrument of the Rover was able to capture his first panorama after hitting the Red Planet on 18 February.
According to a release by NASA, this was the second panorama of the rover ever, as the navigator cameras, or Navcams, which are also located on the mast, got a 360-degree view on February 20th. (ANI)