[9][8] She studied Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, before completing her master's degree and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

With SPHERES, she had multiple tests performed on the International Space Station (ISS), including some by fellow MIT alumni astronauts Dan Tani[13] and Greg Chamitoff.

[16] Mohan works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and is the Guidance & Controls Operations Lead for the Mars 2020 mission.

[1] She announced "Touchdown is confirmed," after which the JPL Mission Control Center erupted in celebration, clapping and fist bumping (socially distant due to COVID-19).

"[22] Previously, she had worked on the Cassini mission to Saturn,[9][18] and GRAIL, a pair of small spacecraft which mapped the gravitational field of the Moon.