Dubai: Yamama Badwan
The Emirates Mars Exploration Project, “Hope Probe”, continues to record unprecedented achievements in drawing a comprehensive map of the atmosphere of the Red Planet, by providing a series of observations and scientific data, amounting to 3.3 terabytes, some of which are the first of their kind, since the beginning of its scientific mission on Mars, which It was launched at the end of May 2021.
The Hope Probe was able to provide the first complete picture of the various layers of the Martian atmosphere during the day and night and all seasons of the Martian year, which is equivalent to two Earth years. It also provided a detailed and unprecedented view of the climate of Mars, in addition to explaining the reasons for the disappearance processes of the Red Planet’s atmosphere, and the surface temperature. And measuring the visual depth of dust, clouds, and the abundance of water vapor in the atmosphere, over the course of a full day on Mars, and on semi-seasonal time scales, which contributes to understanding the composition and structure of the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet, and the changes that occur to it during Different seasons.
The Emirates Mars Exploration Project announced at the beginning of this year the extension of its scientific mission on the Red Planet, continuing the series of achievements, by providing the first images of its kind of the moon “Deimos”, including monitoring the first spectral image in the extreme ultraviolet rays of “Deimos”. , which contributed to identifying the surface composition and space weather factors, after flying near it at a distance of 100 million km.
The project was also able to monitor “Deimos” with three-dimensional images, which reflected the efficiency of the scientific equipment carried by the probe, which is the digital exploration camera, which captures high-resolution color images of the planet Mars, and is also used to measure ice and ozone in the lower layer of the atmosphere, as well as the infrared spectrometer. The infrared spectrometer, which measures temperatures and the distribution of dust, water vapor, and ice clouds in the lower atmosphere, also measures oxygen and carbon monoxide in the thermal layer of Mars, and hydrogen and oxygen in the Martian exosphere.
