The Emirates Mars Mission is a United Arab Emirates Space Agency uncrewed space exploration mission to Mars. The Hope spacecraft was launched on July 19 last year and reached Mars on February 9 this year.
The United Arab Emirates' first mission to Mars, the "Hope" probe is set to reach the Red Planet's orbit on Tuesday.
After hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space since last summer, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes at Mars.
China's space probe Tianwen-1 has sent back the first image of Mars that it captured from a distance of 2.2 million km from the Red Planet.
NASA, in collaboration with three international partners, is planning to launch a robotic Mars ice mapping mission, which could help the agency identify potential science objectives for initial human missions to Mars.
NASA is all decked up and ready to launch the car-sized Mars rover named Perseverance along with a robotic helicopter named Ingenuity. The two mechanical devices will be traveling to Mars in search of signs of past microbial life and examine the Martian climate and geology in the area which is being called — Jezero crater. If everything goes as planned, the robots will land on the surface of Mars on February 18, 2021.
UAE has launched its first mission to Mars on Sunday. It is an orbiter launched via Japanese rocket that will study the planet's weather. The H-2A rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan at 5:58 p.m. Eastern.
The U.S., for its part, is dispatching a six-wheeled rover the size of a car, named Perseverance, to collect rock samples that will be brought back to Earth for analysis in about a decade.
NASA and launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced on Sunday that NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, and its Martian helicopter sidekick, Ingenuity, were mated with the Atlas V 541 rocket that will kick off the seven-month journey to the Red Planet.
Hope Probe is scheduled to be launched in July 2020. It is planned to reach Mars by 2021 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the UAE.
NASA has not yet provided clues on what the new results are about, but it said that during the event, NASA scientists will have chats with the the public and media on the findings, public can send questions on social media.
The US space agency hopes that such research will help it understand, prevent, diagnose, treat, mitigate and cure the potential health effects of prolonged spaceflight.
NASA said that these "eyes" will provide dramatic views during the rover's descent to Mars and be the first to capture images of a parachute as it opens on another planet.
Discovery of evidence of a Martian sea could reveal clues to the origin of life on Earth.
NASA's MAVEN mission, that has been probing Mars’ upper atmosphere for a whole Martian year – equivalent to two Earth years – has found water escaping the planet does not generally go delicately into space.
The Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft, which entered the Martian orbit on September 24, 2014, has completed two years of its life around the red planet. On Saturday while announcing this great news to media, Indian
Beijing: Under criticism that its well developed space programme focussed more on the Moon while the US and India stole a march over China by branching out into outer space with voyages to Mars, Chinese
Bengaluru: The country's low-cost Mars mission which is in rendezvous with the red Planet for an extended period has been presented with the Space Pioneer award for the year 2015 by the US' National Space
Washington: After a series of weather-related delays, NASA has successfully tested its revolutionary "flying saucer" that will help land heavier payloads on the surface of long-distance planets, including Mars.NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project completed
Washington: From June 7 to June 21, NASA's Mars Missions will not beam any new data to the Earth as the Red Planet goes behind the Sun and the spacecraft and rovers take their biennial
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