The United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) hassuccessfully launchedthe first Arab space mission to Mars . " Hope " ( Al Amal in Arabic ) is now bound for the Red Planet after lifting off from Japan ’s Tanegashima Space Center on Sunday , July 19 .
The mission will be an unbelievable tool to understand how the Martian air changes . The spacecraft is an orbiter , so it wo n’t shoot down on Mars , it will give chase how atmospherical properties are affect by geological features . Mars has one of the largest canyon in the Solar System and the tallest mountain , Olympus Mons , an nonextant volcano that rise 26 kilometer ( 16 Roman mile ) high . These features ' presence can certainly affect the atmosphere above and Hope will tell us how , and how much .
Thanks to Hope there will be a round - the - clock weather condition mathematical function of Mars too , and this information will be shared freely with scientists at over 200 enquiry institutes and university around the populace . Hope , also known asEmirates Mars Mission , was built by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre together with the University of Colorado Boulder , Arizona State University , and the University of California , Berkeley .
It is bear to get into orbit around Mars on February 15 , 2021 . This seven - month trip-up simply to get in at the Red Planet is among the shortest possible to get there . Every 780 days , a launching window opens when Earth and Mars are at their shortest length from each other , which is why Hope wo n’t be alone on its journeying towards Mars .
Later this week , on July 23 , China’sTianwen-1mission is also gestate to set up . This is a duo lander and rover mission and will be the first Chinese mission to res publica on Mars . It will investigate the possibility of life there as well as canvass the Martian footing like never before . The delegation is equip with a radar that can map up to 100 meters ( 330 feet ) below the Martian surface .
And last but for sure not least , is NASA ’s Mars 2020 mission , which includes therover Perseveranceand theMartian helicopter cleverness , the first fly vehicle to be charge to another world . The launching for Mars 2020 has been remit a couple of times due to weather condition but it is now scheduled for July 30 . Both Tianwen-1 and Perseverance are bear to shoot down on their destination satellite in February 2021 .
