United Arab Emirates Mars Probe Mission Enters Mars Orbit
Close The United Arab Emirates is welcoming its inaugural Mars mission. It has put in orbit around the planet a probe called Hope, making it only the fifth spaceflight asset to do so after the US, the Soviet Union, Europe, and India. To be sure, without being caught by Mars' gravity, the spacecraft which left Earth seven months ago had to make a braking maneuver. UAE scientists will also look forward to the study of the climate of the Earth. Their spacecraft holds three instruments to observe, among other goals, how hydrogen and oxygen neutral atoms - traces of Mars' once-abundant water - le...
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