The Emirates Exploration Project for Mars has stated that the "Probe of Hope", which will start its journey to Mars on July 15, will join eight probes and vehicles, which will serve as its "neighbors", performing active missions on the "Red Planet", to share with it the global efforts to reveal its secrets, explaining The probes and vehicles belong to the NASA, the European Space Agency and the Indian Space Research Organization.
The project identified seven major scientific missions for the "Probe of Hope" on Mars, the most important of which is its first comprehensive study on the climate of the red planet and its different atmosphere, while the probe awaits four new stages after its launch to accomplish the tasks required of it, including "space flight, access to Orbit, the start of scientific tasks, ”and finally the stage of“ extended scientific processes ”that will continue until 2024.
In detail, the "Probe of Hope" will launch its mission to Mars in the middle of next July, in the morning Japan time (00:51:27 after midnight Emirates time), from the "Tanegashima" space center using the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries platform, which was chosen due to its outstanding performance in Space technology circles around the world, and its track record of one of the highest success rates of launching spacecraft and satellites worldwide.
Since the launch of the "Japanese" program to develop space missiles, Japan has relied on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in various aspects of manufacturing until launching satellites.
The company has a record rate of successful launch of satellites, which makes it a key player in the level of space activities in Japan and the world, and the Emirates have already used them to launch the satellite «Khalifa Sat».
According to the Emirates Space Agency, the launch phase of the Hope Probe is the eighth phase of the Emirates project to explore Mars out of 12 stages of the timetable prepared for the project, pointing out that it was preceded by the launch phase of seven stages, which began by announcing the mission of the probe in 2014, then starting to design The first of the probe in 2015, followed by the initial design review in 2016, then the detailed design and careful review of the design in 2017, to enter then in the development and assembly stage in 2018, then the testing phase that spanned over the past year.
Once the Hope Probe enters the launch stage, there will be four new stages before it to accomplish the tasks required of it, the first of which is the space flight stage that will extend from its launch day until the beginning of the year 2021, then the stage of reaching its orbit in Mars, which is expected to be in February 2021, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the Union in 1971.
With the arrival of the probe into its orbit, the third stage, which begins in its scientific missions that will continue for two years, will be followed by the last stages of the probe's schedule, devoted to the so-called "extended scientific processes" that will continue until the year 2024. It is scheduled to adjacent or join the Emirates project to explore Mars is the "probe of hope", which will begin its journey in less than a month, to eight scientific missions currently active on the Red Planet, to share global efforts to reveal its secrets, the first of which is the NASA probe known as "Mars Odyssey", which launched to Mars on the seventh of April 2001, and reached its orbit on October 24, 2001, and the second European Space Agency probe, known as "Mars Express", which was launched on June 2, 2003, and reached its orbit on December 25 of the same year, and the third "NASA" probe known as "Mars" Reconstruction Orbiter », which launched on August 12, 2005, and reached its orbit on March 10, 2006, as well as the Mars explorer of« NASA », called« Curiosity », which launched on November 26, 2011 and landed on the red planet on the fifth of August 2012, then The Indian Space Research Organization probe Al-Muraikhi ”, which started on November 5, 2013, and reached its orbit on September 24, 2014, as will the UAE probe adjacent to the NASA probe, called“ Muffin ”, which started on November 18, 2013, and reached its orbit on September 21, 2014, and a probe and landing craft The European Space Agency named “EXO Mars”, which was launched on the fourteenth of March 2016, and reached its orbit on October 19, 2016, and finally the NASA landing craft known as the “Insight”, which was launched on the fifth of May 2018 and reached its orbit in Mars on November 26 of the same year.
A proactive step
The journey of the probe to the launch base in Japan began 20 days before the planned date, as a pre-emptive step for the current events, and what the world is witnessing from the pandemic of "Corona", and it is not left until the beginning of the probe's journey to the Red Planet, on July 15 next, only 30 One day from now.
Minister of State for Higher Education and Advanced Skills, Chairman of the Emirates Space Agency, Dr. Ahmed Belhoul Al Falasi, said: “We have overcome several challenges in the previous period, similar to projects of other countries that were canceled against the background of logistical challenges caused by the outbreak of the Corona virus, which "The Hope Probe project team has already missed it."
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The first comprehensive study on the climate of Mars
The "Probe of Hope" performs seven main tasks, which is to carry out the first comprehensive study on the climate of Mars and its different atmosphere, to help answer key scientific questions about the atmosphere of Mars, and the reasons for the loss of hydrogen gases and oxygen from its atmosphere.
The task list also includes studying the reasons for the dissolution of the upper layer of the Martian atmosphere, by tracking the behaviors and path of the exit of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, which form the basic units for forming water molecules, investigating the relationship between the lower and upper atmosphere layers on Mars, and providing the first image of its kind, on Worldwide, about how the Martian atmosphere has changed throughout the day and between seasons.
The task list also includes observing weather phenomena on the surface of Mars, such as dust storms, temperature changes, as well as the diversity of climate patterns according to its various topography, and the detection of the reasons behind the erosion of the surface of Mars. Finally, the search for any relationships between the current weather and climatic conditions in the past for the Red Planet.