{"id":274475,"date":"2020-06-09T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=274475"},"modified":"2020-06-09T17:34:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:34:44","slug":"uae-mission-to-mars-slated-for-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/uae-mission-to-mars-slated-for-july\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE mission to Mars slated for July"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The countdown has begun. In forty days\u2019 time, the United Arab Emirates will become the first Arab country to send a mission to Mars. The Hope Mars Mission is slated for launch on July 14 as part of a regionwide drive to build knowledge and create opportunities in science, particularly for young people. Goals include bringing hope to the Arab world, Saudi newspaper Arab News<\/em><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis mission is not just about the UAE it\u2019s about the region, it\u2019s about the Arab issue,\u201d the mission\u2019s project manager at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) Omran Sharaf told Arab News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sharaf said the region is going through difficult times and is in need of good news. \u201cWe need the youth in the region to really start looking inwards, building their own nations and putting differences aside to co-exist with people with different faiths and backgrounds and work together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Hope Mars Mission is expected to reach the Red Planet in February 2021, the year of the UAE\u2019s 50th<\/sup> anniversary. Project design and management is handled by an Emirati team with supervision and funding from the UAE Space Agency. The MBRSC developed the probe in cooperation with international partners including the universities of Colorado, Berkeley and Arizona, in the United States.<\/p>\n

UAE minister of State Sarah Al-Amiri explained during a webinar on Monday why the project is so important to the country. \u201cToday the UAE is an economy based on services, logistics, and oil and gas, and within the region it is considered a diversified economy, but if we project that down the line, the importance of knowledge-intensive sectors becomes more and more prominent for the country, as well as creating new knowledge-intensive organizations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Developing talent and creating opportunities for engineers, scientists and researchers in the natural sciences are the next important endeavors for the country, the minister added.<\/p>\n

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The Hope probe will be launched from Japan on July 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Hope probe will study the Martian atmosphere to understand how it developed into its current state, Arab News<\/em> said. Since no launch pads are available in the UAE, the probe was shipped to Japan in April \u2013 three weeks earlier than expected, due to growing restrictions on travel resulting from Covid-19. Budget details are expected at a later date.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe public understands the importance for the UAE,\u201dsaid \u00a0Sharaf. \u201cIt\u2019s about addressing our national challenges and building capabilities. We live in a region with geographical challenges, when it comes to water, food and clean energy and everybody is quite excited about this mission because they understand the value it brings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Al-Amiri said mission data will be available two months after the probe starts to orbit Mars, by mid-next year. Any scientist will be able to access and analyze the figures,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cWe are looking at and studying a planet that has indications that it was very similar to our own planet and that has undergone some form of change and has gone into a point where it can\u2019t have one of the major building blocks of life, as we humans know it and as we have defined it. Understanding the reasons for the loss of hydrogen and oxygen, the building blocks of water from the atmosphere of Mars and understanding what role does Mars itself play,\u201d she said. The team is planning on studying the weather on Mars for an entire year, Arab News <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n

Over the last 60 years, only six countries have sent missions to the Red Planet. The UAE has already launched two satellites and sent an astronaut to the International Space Station and it has vowed to build a human settlement on Mars by 2117.<\/p>\n

Three other missions are heading for Mars over the next year, including NASA\u2019s Mars Perseverance Rover, China\u2019s Tianwen-1, which will launch next month, and ExoMars, a collaboration between the European Space Agency and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Arab News<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n

Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Artist's Impression\/Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre<\/div>\n
Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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