Hope Probe

The first Arab interplanetary mission- HOPE- successfully reached Mars’ orbit to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet.

The unmanned probe — named “Al-Amal”, Arabic for “Hope” — was launched by the United Arab Emirates in 2020 from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center.
It is the first interplanetary mission for the Arab World.
It carries three instruments: an infrared spectrometer, an ultraviolet spectrometer and a camera.
The spectrometer is to measure the lower atmosphere and analyse the temperature structure.
The high-resolution imager that will provide information about ozone levels.
The ultraviolet spectrometer is to measure oxygen and hydrogen levels from a distance of up to 43,000 kilometres from the surface.
Unlike the other two Mars ventures, the Tianwen-1 from China and Mars 2020 from the United States, the UAE’s probe will not land on the Red Planet.

It will give planetary scientists their first global view of Martian weather at all times of day.
Over its two-year mission, it will investigate how dust storms and other weather phenomena near the Martian surface speed or slow the loss of the planet’s atmosphere into space.

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