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UAE: ‘Flower’ supermoon tonight, how to watch it
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The first lunar eclipse of the year is special as the moon is going to be closest to the Earth s surface
Mark your calendars for the next big lunar event that will happen on Wednesday, May 26 when the UAE skies will be adorned with a supermoon that is perhaps the largest-looking one of the year.
This supermoon is the closest full moon of the year and may look unusually large to people in some countries, while people in other parts of the world will see a ‘blood moon’ due to the reddish hue from the sunlight filtering through the Earth s atmosphere.
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UAE Mars mission: Experts confident Hope Probe will make it to red planet
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Hope journey has been an emotional roller coaster for both Emiratis and expats in the country.
Top space science experts are confident that tomorrow, the UAE will officially be the fifth country to reach the red planet.
“I am highly optimistic and quite confident that the MOI will be performed and achieved perfectly well and Hope will go into the capture orbit as planned and then, later, into its permanent scientific orbit,” said Dr Nidhal Guessoum, professor of physics at American University of Sharjah, who along with Emirati astronaut Hazzaa AlMansouri was recently named among the top 100 leaders in space exploration for 2021.