MIRSL graduate caught on camera at JPL visit

MIRSL graduate Dragana Perkovic-Martin (Ph.D. 2008) was recently photographed during a vist by NASA administrator Charles Bolden to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA to learn about upcoming Earth-observing missions.  Dragana is working on the RapidScat mission which will attach a radar to the International Space Station for monitoring global ocean surface winds. 

Instrument system engineer Dragana Perkovic-Martin, left, points to the computer graphic rendering of the ISS-RapidScat attached to the International Space Station during a tour of two new Earth-observing missions under construction at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013, in Pasadena, Calif. The mission are scheduled to launch in 2014. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong).

The full story is available here.