SHARJAH: The successful entry of the UAE’s Hope probe into orbit around Mars is a historic event on the scientific, educational, and strategic levels. Indeed, for the first time ever, an Arab nation has gone beyond applied space science and technology (satellites, essentially) and successfully invested and engaged in space exploration. It is important to underline the
The Emirates Mars Mission team has announced that the Hope Probe, which successfully entered the orbit of Mars last Tuesday, has sent the first image of the Red Planet.
UAE Mars mission: Success of Hope Probe overwhelms world media
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#ArabsToMars tops trends; a whopping 2.7 billion engagements around the world.
The success of the Hope Probe’s Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI) has brought the UAE under the spotlight once again with #ArabsToMars topping trends: a whopping 2.7 billion engagements around the world.
The milestone mission marked the Arab world’s entry alongside global weights in the space race and catapulted the UAE as the first Arab nation, and the fifth in the world, to reach the Red Planet.
Global news outlets, including the CNN, BBC, Euronews, France24, Reuters, AFP, AP, New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, The Observer and The Independent, closely followed the historic event.
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Arab world’s first mission to Mars achieves orbit
The Arab world’s history-making first interplanetary mission to Mars – the United Arab Emirates Hope Probe – successfully achieved orbit today, Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 10:57 a.m. ET (19:57 UAE time, 1557 GMT),” after a seven-month journey bound for the Red Planet and designed to study the planet’s weather and climate, and inspire the nations young people to study science.
Hope is the first of three missions reaching the Red Planet this month. The UAE thus commences Earth’s powerful Invasion of Mars in 2021 with an international fleet of orbiters, landers, and rovers launched from the UAE, the United States and China.
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The UAE Space Agency even has plans for a Mars settlement by 2117
People watching an outdoor big screen that showed footage of the United Arab Emirates Hope Probe entering Mars orbit on Tuesday at Burj Plaza, in front of the world s tallest building of Burj Khalifa, in Dubai.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
PublishedFeb 11, 2021, 5:00 am SGT
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