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Emirati engineers have worked with three American universities for this mission
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The final version of UAE's Hope spacecraft, which launched to space on July 20. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office
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The operations control centre at Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai. Antonie Robertson / The National
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The Hope probe has three scientific instruments. This is the Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometre, which will measure the global distribution of dust, ice clouds, water vapour and the temperature of the Martian atmosphere. All photos courtesy of MBRSC
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Engineers had installed the Mars infrared spectrometre on the Hope probe at Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre' clean room
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The Emirates Eploration Imager will take high-resolution images of Mars and will study its lower atmosphere
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The exploration imager has an autonomous digital camera and will send back high-resolution colour images
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The Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer will study the upper atmosphere and traces of oxygen and hydrogen
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Emirati engineers have worked with three American universities for this mission
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The final version of UAE's Hope spacecraft, which launched to space on July 20. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office
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The operations control centre at Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai. Antonie Robertson / The National
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The Hope probe has three scientific instruments. This is the Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometre, which will measure the global distribution of dust, ice clouds, water vapour and the temperature of the Martian atmosphere. All photos courtesy of MBRSC
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Engineers had installed the Mars infrared spectrometre on the Hope probe at Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre' clean room
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The Emirates Eploration Imager will take high-resolution images of Mars and will study its lower atmosphere
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The exploration imager has an autonomous digital camera and will send back high-resolution colour images
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The Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer will study the upper atmosphere and traces of oxygen and hydrogen
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Emirati engineers have worked with three American universities for this mission
UAE's mission to Mars is on time and on budget
The Emirates has paid Dh735 million to develop the project - far less than similar expeditions
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Sarwat Nasir
10 July, 2020
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