The Hope Probe is approaching the moon of Mars

The Hope Probe is approaching 100 km from the moon of Mars, where Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, announced through his official account on Twitter.

that the “Hope Probe” approached 100 km from the Martian moon “Deimos”, and captured clearer Image obtained by humans of this moon.

A new global precedent

And “Sheikh Mohammed” had tweeted, saying: “In a new global precedent … the Emirates Mars Exploration Project, the “Probe of Hope.”

It approaches XNUMX km from the Martian moon, Deimos, and captures the clearest picture humans have obtained of this moon.
Theories tell us that this moon is an exosteroid captured within the orbit of Mars, and the Hope probe refutes this theory

To prove through his devices and his work team that this moon was mostly part of the planet Mars and it separated from it millions of years ago..

Just like the earth's moon.. which was part of it and separated from it..
We are proud of our young scientists, proud of our science, proud of our contribution to the march of human knowledge.”

The first Emirati and Arab mission

As for the Emirati astronaut, Sultan Al Neyadi, who is engaged in the longest space flight in the history of the Arabs, which will last for 6 months

Through a video he posted on his official account on Twitter, he wished success to his colleagues at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center

By reaching the moon, he said: “We await tomorrow the arrival of explorer Rashid on the first Emirati and Arab mission to the surface of the moon.
The success rate does not exceed 50%. The task is difficult, and the history of lunar landing missions attests to this.

All the best to my colleagues at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in reaching the moon.”

Explorer Rashid and the Hope Probe

He is a young explorer who intends to carry out a big mission by exploring a new place that has not yet been discovered on the surface of the moon.

With the support of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, explorer Rashid will be able to overcome the special obstacles on the rocky surface of the moon.

Once the explorer Rashid reaches the surface of the moon, some tools, such as the sensor and its wheels, will be used to study the lunar dust.

Focusing on lunar dust, it is completely different from the dust on Earth.

It has distinctive properties such that it is sharp and sticky and can damage human equipment in space

Explorer Rashid must continue his mission within one lunar day, which is equivalent to 12 days on Earth.

Tasks of the explorer Rashid

• Carrying out tests to study different aspects of the lunar surface, including “lunar soil, thermal properties

Photoelectric envelope, plasma and optoelectronic measurements, dust particles over the illuminated part of the lunar surface.
• Measurement of electronics temperature and density.
• Taking pictures.
• Studying the plasma on the surface of the moon by collecting data and taking pictures and sending them to the ground control station at the center

Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai.
• Learn about the characteristics of the lunar surface soil and the sizes of its grains.
It is worth noting that the explorer Rashid was developed and designed with the help of Emirati engineers, male and female, within the Mohammed Center

Bin Rashid Space Center, and once that mission is accomplished, the UAE will become a world leader in lunar exploration, after the United States, Russia and China.

Explorer Rashid's experience falls under the new strategy 2021-2031, which was launched by the center and aims to develop and launch the first Emirati lunar explorer.

Hope Probe

It should be noted that the Hope Probe is a space exploration project that launched on July 20, 2020 to Mars.

The probe was built at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center and co-developed by the University of Colorado Boulder, Arizona State University and the University of California Berkeley. The purpose of the probe is to study the daily and seasonal weather cycles.

And weather events in the low atmosphere, such as: dust storms, and how the weather changes in the different regions of Mars.

The probe will be used to try to answer scientific questions about why the Martian atmosphere is losing hydrogen and oxygen to space and the reason behind the extreme climate changes in Mars.
On the ninth of February, the UAE celebrated one year since the arrival of the “Probe of Hope” to the orbit of Mars.

To become the fifth country in the world to succeed in this.
With the successful arrival of the Hope Probe on this historic day, the UAE became the first to reach the orbit of the Red Planet

Among 3 other space missions that arrived in February 2021 to Mars, they are led in addition to the UAE by the United States and China.

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