Shyama Narendranath The International Astronomical Union, India
Shyama Narendranath is an Indian space scientist known for her contributions to space missions and research at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Her work primarily focuses on planetary science, lunar exploration, and space instrumentation, and she has played a significant role in India's lunar missions. Shyama Narendranath is a senior scientist at ISRO, where she has been involved in various key projects, particularly in the field of lunar exploration. Her expertise lies in space instrumentation and the analysis of data from planetary missions. Narendranath has been a prominent figure in ISRO's Chandrayaan missions, India's series of lunar exploration missions. She contributed to the success of Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar probe launched in 2008. This mission was pivotal in confirming the presence of water/hydroxyl on the Moon using data from the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) and the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an instrument from NASA. She played a key role in the Chandrayaan-2 mission, launched in 2019, which aimed to explore the Moon's south polar region. Her work involved analyzing data from the instruments on board, particularly focusing on understanding the lunar surface and its composition.
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