The Hope probe sends the first image of Mars

Arab Weather - The Arab world lived a historic moment last Tuesday (February 9, 2021) after the success of the Hope probe entering the capture orbit around Mars, and five days after its arrival, the probe succeeded in its first stage and took the first image of the red planet, and that was from an altitude of 25 thousand How much is the surface of Mars, so the Hope probe is the first Arab probe in history to take a picture of Mars.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the first photo of Mars with the lens of the Hope Probe, published a tweet on his official account on Twitter:

From a height of 25 thousand km from the surface of the Red Planet ... the first image of Mars by the first Arab probe in history

The first picture of Mars captured by the first-ever Arab probe in history, 25,000 km above the Red Planet's surface pic.twitter.com/Qgh2Cn3JPF

- HH Sheikh Mohammed (@HHShkMohd) February 14, 2021

The next stage is the transition to the scientific orbit

After the first phase of the project has been completed, the responsible team will start implementing the next phase of the Hope probe journey, which is moving to the scientific orbit, by carrying out several operations to guide the probe's path and move it to the scientific orbit safely, and this will require the use of more fuel that the probe carries. And, careful tracking and monitoring of the probe’s location will be made to ensure that it is in the correct orbit, after which a comprehensive calibration of the probe’s systems will be conducted, similar to those that the team had conducted after the probe’s launch on July 20, and the calibration procedures and resetting the probe systems may extend to about 45 One day, and it is worth noting here that each communication process with the probe at this stage takes between 11-22 minutes, due to the distance between planet Earth and Mars.

Final stage

The final stage of the Hope probe flight begins next April, and it is the scientific stage during which the Hope probe will provide the first complete picture of the climate of Mars and the weather conditions on its surface throughout the day and between the seasons of the year, which makes it the first atmospheric observatory of the red Mars planet.

The mission of the probe will continue for a full Martian year (i.e. 687 Earth days), extending until April of 2023, in order to ensure that the three scientific devices carried by the Hope Probe monitor all the required scientific data that humans have not previously reached about the climate of Mars, and it may extend The mission of the probe is another Martian year, if necessary, to collect more data and reveal more secrets about the red planet.

It is noteworthy that the journey of the UAE project to explore Mars, "Probe of Hope", actually began as an idea seven years ago through an exceptional ministerial retreat called by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai, on Sir Bani Yas Island in late 2013, and this idea turned into A reality when Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, issued a decree in 2014 to establish the Emirates Space Agency, to start work on a project to send the first Arab probe to Mars, called the "Hope Probe", so that the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center would implement And overseeing the design and implementation phases of the probe, while the agency funds the project and oversees the necessary procedures for its implementation.

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