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Swati Mohan discusses her role in landing the Perseverance rover on Mars and the engineering challenges faced during the mission.

Landing the Perseverance rover on Mars, working in clean rooms to minimize the microbial bug count, and slogging through hundreds of engineering trade-offs with Swati Mohan, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. What are the "seven minutes of terror"? And is there evidence of past life on Mars? LINKS & REFERENCES: Watch Swati voice the landing of Perseverance in 2021.Swati's official NASA bioMore about the Perseverance roverSwati Mohan spoke with us in a personal capa...

People in this episode

Host: Dan Heath

Guest: Swati Mohan

Topics covered

• aerospace engineering
• Mars exploration
• NASA
• engineering challenges
• clean room technology

Keywords

• Perseverance rover
• Mars
• Swati Mohan
• NASA
• engineering trade-offs
• clean rooms
• seven minutes of terror

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Products: Perseverance rover

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