UAE's Hope Probe mission🚀

Mars mission from scratch in six years

When the United Arab Emirates (UAE)🇦🇪 announced in 2014 that it would send a mission to Mars by the country’s 50th birthday🎂 in December 2021, it looked like a Mars mission from scratch in six years
At the time, the nation had no space agency and no planetary scientists, and had only recently launched its first satellite . The rapidly assembled team of engineers, with an average age of 27, frequently heard the same jibe

*UAE’s Hope Probe Mars Mission*🚀


🔖 The UAE’s Hope Probe ( *Al Amal in Arabic* ) is the first Arab *interplanetary mission* .

🔖 It is designed to orbit Mars and provide the *first-ever complete picture of Martian atmosphere.*

🔖 Hope Probe will begin its journey to Mars on July 17 at exactly 00:43:00am (UAE time)⌛ from *Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre (TNSC) aboard Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ H-IIA rocket.*

🔖Hope Probe was built by a team of *150 Emirati engineers*👷 who collaborated with American engineers and scientists at three US universities, including *University of Colorado, University of California Berkeley and Arizona State University*

It cost around $200 million (Dh735.6 million)💵, which is considered among the lowest in the world when compared with similar programmes.

🔖Three advanced scientific instruments are mounted on Hope Probe:

1. *eXploration Imager (EXI)* is a multiband camera that will capture 12 mega-pixel resolution pictures of Mars.

2. *Infrared Spectrometer (EMIRS)* will observe Mars in the infrared band and measure the optical depth of dust, ice clouds and water vapour in the atmosphere.

3. *Ultraviolet Spectrometer* (EMUS) will study the upper atmosphere of Mars through the far-ultraviolet wavelengths.

*OBJECTIVES* -

🔖Hope Probe will study the dynamics of Martian atmosphere.

🔖 It is touted as the first true-weather satellite at Mars that will provide a complete view of Martian atmosphere and help answer key questions such as *why Mars lets out its hydrogen and oxygen gases into space.*

🔖It will observe weather phenomena such as *dust storms* , as well as changes in temperature and atmosphere that will reveal the *causes of Martian surface corrosion.*

🔖Study the link between weather changes in the lower atmosphere with loss of hydrogen and oxygen in the upper atmosphere. This process may have been responsible for Mars’ transition – over billions of years – *from a thick atmosphere capable of sustaining liquid water on the surface to the present cold, thin and arid atmosphere.*

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