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02.09.2021—2am    Post #18206
Gulf News tells story of UAE’s Mars exploration

All eyes and ears in the UAE will be glued on Mars today. A few minutes of this day will decide the fate of the Emirates Mars Mission. Talk about pressure!

February 9, 2021. 7.42pm. That is today, and what a historic day this will be for people in the United Arab Emirates.

Their first space project is about to face the most crucial part of the mission — the Mars Orbital Insertion. According to the story in the Gulf News:

It simply means the probe will slip into Mars’ gravity so that it can orbit the Red Planet. That would make the UAE the fifth country to reach the Martian orbit, after successful missions by the US, Russia, China, the EU, and India.
The Hope Probe, built by Emirati engineers, was launched from Tanegashima, Japan, on July 20, 2020.
The probe reaches Mars in the year the UAE celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Why is this part of the mission important? :The Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI) is the most critical and challenging part of the mission, where precision is the key. If Hope Probe goes too fast or too slow, it will either crash on Mars or widely miss its orbit and get lost in deep space.

From the editor of the Gulf News: Editor in chief Abdul Hamid has sent me an example of this great multimedia storytelling to present the facts of the mission. It is a great example of mixing text, video and animated graphics to explain what may be a complicated subject. “By studying the connection between current Martian weather and the ancient climate of the Red Planet, scientists will have deeper insights into the past and future of the Earth as well as the potential for human settlement on Mars and other planetary objects. Scientists will understand the weather and learn how Mars lost some of its atmosphere over billions of years of its planetary history. Substantial geophysical evidence suggests that Mars was once a much warmer and more humid world, with a lot of liquid water on its surface that could have been optimal for some form of life to evolve,” he writes.

Here is link to the Gulf News story:

https://gulfnews.com/special-reports/uae-mars-mission-all-you-want-to-know-about-hope-probes-orbital-entry-1.77022000

The Gulf News digital team that created the piece:

Angel Tesorero, Senior Reporter

Seyyed de la Llata, Senior Designer

Shyam A. Krishna, Senior Associate Editor

Alex Abraham, Senior Associate Editor

Jay Hilotin, Senior Assistant Editor 

Vijith Pulikkal, Assistant Product Manager 

Irish Eden Belleza, Video Editor 

Devadasan KP, Photo Editor

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