Description : Emirates Mars Mission (Hope Probe) is a UAE space project that embodies the leadership’s ambitions to build a robust national space program that reflects the UAE’s commitment to establish a sustainable knowledge-based economy and reinforce its position in the areas of space science and explorations.
Hope Probe, the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission, carries messages of pride and hope to the Arab region with the aim to usher in the renaissance of Arab and Islamic discoveries. Emirates Mars Mission symbolizes the ambitions and culture of possibilities that is integral to the UAE’s identity.

The Emirates Mars Mission will focus on the Martian atmosphere and climate. It will study how the lower and upper layers of the atmosphere interact with each other. It will search for connections between today’s Martian weather and the ancient climate of the Red Planet.

The Emirates Mars Mission spacecraft is a compact cubic spacecraft built from aluminium in a stiff but lightweight honeycomb structure and surfaced with a strong composite face-sheet. It weighs approximately 1350 kg including fuel, and measure 2.37 m wide by 2.90 m tall. The spacecraft was built at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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