The UAE Mars Rover "Hope" successfully enters Mars orbit
Xinhua News Agency, Dubai, February 9 (Reporter Su Xiaopo) After about 7 months and nearly 500 million kilometers of "space travel", the United Arab Emirates' first Mars rover "Hope" successfully entered the orbit of Mars on the 9th, and began to attack Mars. Atmospheric monitoring and research.
The UAE Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center announced on the same day that the "Hope" mission to Mars has been successful. The probe entered Mars orbit at about 20 o'clock on the 9th local time in the UAE and began a scientific mission to explore the red planet.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Chief of Dubai, posted on social media congratulating the Arab world’s first mission to Mars on the “successful completion”.
Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates, posted on social media that the entry of the "Hope" probe into Mars orbit is a major achievement in UAE history.
In 2014, the UAE plans to become the first Arab country to send an unmanned probe to Mars, and it began to cooperate with the University of Colorado Atmospheric and Space Physics Laboratory and other institutions to jointly develop the "Hope" Mars probe in 6 years.
The "Hope" was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan on July 20, 2020.
"Hope" carries 3 sets of equipment for studying the Martian atmosphere and monitoring climate change. The main task is to take pictures of the Martian atmosphere and study the daily and seasonal changes of the Martian atmosphere.
"Hope" will orbit Mars in an orbit of 20,000 to 40,000 kilometers from the surface of Mars. It takes about 55 hours to orbit Mars once, and it will continue to orbit Mars for at least two years.