Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday released the first images of the Martian world in ultraviolet, providing new insight into the unique phenomenon of the aurora borealis in the Martian atmosphere.
After successfully entering the orbit of the Red Planet last February, the United Arab Emirates’ “Exploration of Hope” managed to take three pictures of the Martian atmosphere.
The study’s digital camera captured the three “blue, green and red” visible spectrums, which represent precise and detailed images of the red planet’s atmosphere.
Auroras are formed when high-energy particles collide with the global atmosphere, converting energy into atoms in the air and illuminating them. On Earth, these particles are pushed toward the poles by the planet’s magnetic field, but there is no universal magnetic field similar to that of Mars.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, said on Twitter that the Hope investigation had captured the first images of the Aurora event not found on the surface of Mars.
Dan bin Rashid said on his Twitter account on Wednesday: “I wouldn’t swear if twilight, night, night and moon stayed.” “For the first time in human history, the Hope study, the first Arabic and Islamic study, describes the occurrence of an invisible intermediate aurora borealis on the Red Planet.”
He added: “Let us open new frontiers for mankind to study this divine cosmic event.”
