Signing of an agreement between the Emirates Mars Exploration Project and NASA's MAVEN mission
Mohammed bin Rashid: Scientific cooperation between the UAE and the United States in the field of space brings knowledge to everyone
The Hope probe studies the atmosphere of Mars.
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Engineer Imran Sharaf: “The Hope Probe was based on international cooperation and partnerships, and we are pleased to work with other Mars exploration missions.”
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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, stressed that scientific cooperation between the UAE and the United States of America in the field of space will bring knowledge to everyone.
His Highness said in a tweet on Twitter: "I am happy that the (Probe of Hope) project to explore Mars has signed a cooperation agreement with the (MAVEN) project of the US Space Agency with the aim of deepening humanity's understanding of the red planet. The (MAVEN) spacecraft entered Mars orbit in 2014 and the Hope probe in 2021. ...scientific cooperation between the two countries in the field of space will bring knowledge to everyone.”
To that, the Emirates Mars Exploration Project, “Probe of Hope”, the first planetary exploration mission led by an Arab country, has concluded a cooperation agreement with NASA’s MAVEN mission to explore Mars, centered on the analysis of scientific data, and it will pave the way towards broader scientific cooperation and greater data exchange. between two sides.
The partnership also allows for collaboration on the analysis and exchange of data and observations generated by the Emirates Mars Exploration Project and NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) project.
The partnership will also enhance scientific returns from data collected by the two spacecraft that are currently orbiting Mars and observing the red planet's atmosphere.
The cooperation is also expected to add great value to the Emirates Mars Exploration Project, MAVEN, and the international scientific community that analyzes the data collected by the two space missions.
MAVEN completed the Mars entry process in 2014. Its mission is to explore Mars' upper atmosphere and ionosphere, providing a comprehensive view of how the planet's climate has changed over time.
And while NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center runs the MAVEN project for the principal investigator at the University of California, Berkeley.
The spacecraft operations are performed by Lockheed Martin, while the University of Colorado Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics is responsible for the science operations.
Engineer Imran Sharaf, director of the Emirates Mars Exploration Project, "Probe of Hope", said: "The project has been based on solid international cooperation and partnerships since its inception, and we are pleased with the opportunity to work with other Mars exploration missions and derive broader insights by sharing our observations and cooperation to solve space puzzles together, which means the integration of the Emirates Exploration Project. Mars with (MAVEN) we can really come up with a comprehensive picture together about the climate and atmosphere of the Red Planet.”
He continued: "Both the Emirates Mars Exploration Project and the (MAVEN) project add unique scientific data on the Red Planet, as the Hope probe was designed to answer scientific goals compatible with the objectives of the MEPAG analysis group, and the Hope scientific probe was developed in orbit to provide new observations that were not previously available. possible from previous Mars missions.
Now, by combining the two data sets from the two missions and analyzing the results together, we can better formulate answers to several fundamental questions we have about Mars and the evolution and dynamics of its atmosphere.”
Shannon Curry, Research Scientist in Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley in the US and Principal Investigator of the MAVEN Project, Shannon Curry, said: “MAVEN and the Emirates Mars Exploration Project are exploring different aspects of the Martian atmosphere and upper-atmosphere system. We will get a much better understanding of the coupling between the two and the effect of the lower atmosphere on gas escape from the upper atmosphere into space.”
The Hope probe, which entered Mars' orbit on February 9, 2021, studies the relationship between the upper layer and the lower regions of the Martian atmosphere, allowing the international scientific community to fully access a comprehensive view of the planet's atmosphere at different times of the day, across different seasons.
The Emirates Mars Exploration Project, the Hope Probe, was designed to achieve several goals set by the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, the global gathering of Mars scientists and researchers.
Building on the MAVEN career and other previous missions, the Hope probe aims to measure the daily and seasonal response of the Martian atmosphere to solar influences, including atmospheric conditions related to the rate of atmospheric decay, especially hydrogen and oxygen, and the temporal and spatio-temporal behavior of Mars' outer atmosphere.
Early results show exciting observations of Mars' separate auroras, with a larger scope and resources devoted to making new scientific observations of separate auroras, pushing the Hope probe beyond its planned science goals.
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