Mangala Mani is the first ISRO female scientist to spend more than a year in Antarctica. She was the only woman in that zone as the Russian and Chinese earth stations also did not have any woman during the 2016-17 period.

It will be first time in the history that a team of all-women scientists will travel to Antarctica for scientific research. The first chapter of this expedition titled “Undisciplined: Leading Climate Solutions by Bridging the Sciences,” will start next year from December 2 to 21, 2016. The Homeward Bound program, an Australia-based group plans to […]