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UAE Mars Mission in July-Aug next year
Yamama Badwan
January 22, 2019
DUBAI: The UAE’s Mars Mission will take place between July 14 and Aug.3 in the year 2020, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced during the MBRSC Science Event on Monday. The hexagonal-section spacecraft, Hope Probe, will take off from Tanegashima Space Centre aboard an MHI-H2A rocket.
The Mars Mission project will answer scientific questions that have long puzzled scientists.
The Hope Probe is at the testing phase, which will ensure its capability to travel up to 60 million kilometres on a nine-month journey to Mars.
The Hope Probe is built from aluminium, will be stiff but lightweight and surfaced with a strong composite face-sheet. Weighing approximately 1,500 kg, it will have three solar panels to generate power. The solar panel arrays will be folded flat against the sides of the spacecraft when it is launched, and they will unfold once the spacecraft is in orbit.
It is equipped with a computer and sophisticated software that can manoeuvre it into Mars’ orbit autonomously. It will have a digital camera that will send back high-resolution colour images and an infra-red spectrometer, which will examine temperature patterns, ice, water vapour and dust in the atmosphere. It also will have an ultraviolet spectrometer which will study the upper atmosphere and traces of oxygen and hydrogen further out into space. The probe will also include a high-gain antenna with a 1.5m wide dish that will communicate with Mission Control on Earth.
The project will cover all aspects that have not been previously covered, whether scientific or knowledge-based, and it will work on drawing a clear and comprehensive picture of the Martian climate and the causes of the corrosion of its surface that has made it impossible for water to exist on the planet. The project will also provide insights about the weather on the Red Planet. It will observe weather phenomena such as dust storms and changes in temperature and how the atmosphere interacts with topography, from the highest volcano peaks to ice sheets to the vast deserts and the deepest canyons.
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/64ec30b1-dc21-461d-8072-1caf20e17b52.aspx
Yamama Badwan
January 22, 2019
DUBAI: The UAE’s Mars Mission will take place between July 14 and Aug.3 in the year 2020, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced during the MBRSC Science Event on Monday. The hexagonal-section spacecraft, Hope Probe, will take off from Tanegashima Space Centre aboard an MHI-H2A rocket.
The Mars Mission project will answer scientific questions that have long puzzled scientists.
The Hope Probe is at the testing phase, which will ensure its capability to travel up to 60 million kilometres on a nine-month journey to Mars.
The Hope Probe is built from aluminium, will be stiff but lightweight and surfaced with a strong composite face-sheet. Weighing approximately 1,500 kg, it will have three solar panels to generate power. The solar panel arrays will be folded flat against the sides of the spacecraft when it is launched, and they will unfold once the spacecraft is in orbit.
It is equipped with a computer and sophisticated software that can manoeuvre it into Mars’ orbit autonomously. It will have a digital camera that will send back high-resolution colour images and an infra-red spectrometer, which will examine temperature patterns, ice, water vapour and dust in the atmosphere. It also will have an ultraviolet spectrometer which will study the upper atmosphere and traces of oxygen and hydrogen further out into space. The probe will also include a high-gain antenna with a 1.5m wide dish that will communicate with Mission Control on Earth.
The project will cover all aspects that have not been previously covered, whether scientific or knowledge-based, and it will work on drawing a clear and comprehensive picture of the Martian climate and the causes of the corrosion of its surface that has made it impossible for water to exist on the planet. The project will also provide insights about the weather on the Red Planet. It will observe weather phenomena such as dust storms and changes in temperature and how the atmosphere interacts with topography, from the highest volcano peaks to ice sheets to the vast deserts and the deepest canyons.
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/64ec30b1-dc21-461d-8072-1caf20e17b52.aspx