Aswin Sekhar (2026)

"Tell me, Clara," Aswin said, turning to her. "Is there anything else of your grandfather's that needs looking at? I find myself with some free time."

His work on Venus highlights another facet of his personality: rigorous skepticism married to open wonder. He believes Venus is an under-studied world and has called for a new fleet of atmospheric probes. "Mars gets all the rovers," he jokes in interviews, "but Venus might have floating microbial cities in its temperate cloud layer. We need to look there with an open mind—but also a sharp scalpel for our data." aswin sekhar

: He has studied how general relativity influences solar system bodies, specifically how precise gravitational modeling alters predictions of orbital calculations. "Tell me, Clara," Aswin said, turning to her