Wheel tread marks in the soil of Jezero Crater on Mars, from Nasa’s Mars rover, Perseverance, in this photo taken on March 4 2021. Picture: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS
The space roboticist is operating the Perseverance — the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world — as it roams Mars looking for signs of ancient microbial life. Born in India, Verma studied electrical engineering at Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh before moving to the US, where she gaining a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
But she said there was a long way to go to encourage more women into the STEM professions — science, technology, engineering and mathematics.British space engineer Vinita Marwaha Madill — founder of Rocket Women, which aims to inspire women to choose STEM careers — said role models were vital. In Britain, women make up about a quarter of people working in STEM subjects, excluding medicine and related fields where women outnumber men, according to Wise, an organisation campaigning to increase the number of women in STEM professions.
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