Hours before the much-awaited touchdown of NASA’s car-sized rover Curiosity on the Martian surface, an Indian scientist who identified the landing site, is keeping his fingers crossed. Mr Amitabh Ghosh, chair of the science operations working group at NASA Mars Exploration Rover Mission, was a key member of the team that zeroed in on the Gale crater location where Curiosity will land after flying more than 350 million miles in the last eight months. “The best engineers have worked on missions. But Mars remains an unknown frontier. Until the rover lands successfully, you never know. The chances of toppling of the rover, however, are very low,” Mr Ghosh told.

 

Source: Deccan Herald

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