Rutu Parekh, an Ahmedabad native and post-doctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is part of the science team working on the Europa Clipper Mission, aimed at exploring Jupiter’s moon, Europa.
An alumna of St. Xavier’s College and CEPT University, Parekh began her journey in planetary science with an internship at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad, marking a significant contribution from the city’s talent pool to the international space mission.