Helen Maynard-Casely

It’s not everyday that you get to discover something new. But when you do it is a rather strange and quite brilliant feeling.

As I write this, a team of engineers and scientists will be nervously watching the clock (in fact they are probably in their beds not sleeping). They are waiting for the time when the Mars Orbiter Mission (or MOM) will fire its thrusters and start a gravitational pas-de-deux with Mars.

It’s not everyday that you get to discover something new. But when you do it is a rather strange and quite brilliant feeling.

As I write this, a team of engineers and scientists will be nervously watching the clock (in fact they are probably in their beds not sleeping). They are waiting for the time when the Mars Orbiter Mission (or MOM) will fire its thrusters and start a gravitational pas-de-deux with Mars.