It passed 75% of the distance to the Red Planet

The "Probe of Hope" will be separated for 55 days from its orbit around Mars

The "Probe of Hope" will take a scientific orbit that will allow it to collect scientific data on the red planet.

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As of yesterday, the Emirates Mars Exploration Project website stated that the "Hope Probe" has cut more than three-fourths of the distance to its orbit around Mars (more than 376 million kilometers), as it travels at a speed of more than 86 thousand kilometers per hour, while less than 100 remain. The probe will travel one million kilometers in the remaining 53 days of flight time, to reach its orbit on February 9th, as the distance it will travel is 493.5 million kilometers.

The project explained that the probe will take a scientific orbit around Mars, allowing it to collect data on the red planet that will enhance the understanding of daily atmospheric changes, pointing out that what distinguishes the scientific orbit of the probe is that previous Mars missions were orbiting in a polar orbit, which allowed it to move from One pole to another, and thus she was able to study Mars linearly during specific times of the day.

As for the scientific orbit of the "Hope Probe", it is located near the equator, which qualifies it to conduct observations at different times of the day on the geographical level of the planet within 10 days only.

The large orbit size and low inclination angle of the probe contribute to monitoring the processes of the lower and upper Martian atmospheres, providing a new understanding of the planet's atmosphere at daily and seasonal time scales.

The "Hope Probe" will present the first comprehensive study on the climate of Mars and its various layers of atmosphere, when it reaches the red planet in 2021 on a mission that will last for one Martian year, which will help answer major scientific questions about the Martian atmosphere, and the causes of the loss of hydrogen and oxygen gases. From its atmosphere.

The UAE Mars Exploration Project aims mainly to draw a clear and comprehensive picture about the climate of Mars, and the project team will work in cooperation and coordination with the global scientific community interested in the planet Mars, to try to find answers to questions that were not addressed by any of the previous space missions, and to study the reasons for the disappearance The upper layer of the Martian atmosphere by tracking the behavior and path of exit of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, which form the basic units for forming water molecules, and investigating the relationship between the lower and upper layers of the atmosphere on Mars.

The team will also work to provide the first picture of its kind in the world about how the atmosphere of Mars changes throughout the day and between the seasons of the year, and monitor weather phenomena on the surface of Mars, such as dust storms, and temperature changes, as well as the diversity of climate patterns according to its varied topography, and the detection of The reasons behind the erosion of the surface of Mars, and the search for any relationships between the current weather and the ancient climatic conditions of the red planet.

The team of the Emirates Mars Exploration Project designed the "Hope Probe" so that its life span (its life span) would be two Martian years, equivalent to four Earth years, and it was planned to complete the scientific mission of the probe in a Martian year, equivalent to two Earth years.

Upon completion of the mission during the first Martian year, there will be another Martian year opportunity to add new missions for the probe, to be determined later.

7 main goals of the "Hope Probe"

- Trying to find answers to questions that were not addressed by previous space missions.

Track the behavior and exit paths of hydrogen and oxygen atoms

They form the basic units to form water molecules.

Investigate the relationship between the lower and upper layers of the atmosphere on Mars.

Presenting the first-of-its-kind picture of how the Martian atmosphere changes throughout the day and between seasons.

Observing the weather phenomena on the surface of Mars (dust storms, and temperature changes), as well as the diversity of climate patterns according to its topography.

Detecting the causes of the erosion of the Martian surface.

- Searching for any relationships between the current weather and the ancient climatic conditions of the red planet.

Life on Mars

The goals of the UAE space exploration project include knowing whether or not Mars has witnessed any life form before, and preparing to explore it with manned flights.

Mars is the second smallest planet in the solar system.

And it was called "the Red Planet", because the oxidation of ferrous metals in its soil causes the formation of rust, which gives the color red to the soil and the atmosphere.

The gravity on its surface is about one-third of that on the planet, and the average temperature on its surface is 63 degrees Celsius, and the Martian year equals 687 days on the planet, and it has a thin atmosphere, which provides protection from cosmic and solar radiation, and it is mostly composed of carbon dioxide gases Argon, nitrogen, a small amount of oxygen and water vapor.

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One million kilometers the "Hope Probe" has traveled towards its orbit around Mars.

The location of the "Hope Probe" scientific orbit near the equator qualifies it to conduct observations at different times of the day.

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