Arab world's first interplanetary mission takes off from Japan's rocket

Arab world's first interplanetary mission takes off from Japan's rocket

UAE became the Arab world's first country to launch an interplanetary mission on Monday. The mission is aimed at studying the atmosphere, climate and temperature changes happening in the  environment of Mars.

The unmanned probe carrying spacecraft named Hope was launched from Japan's Tanegashima space center.

If all things go well the orbiter will enter Mars atmosphere in the month on February in 2021. The orbiter is made in such way that it will be able to circle around the Mars for two years to gather much valuable data.

The probe will be able to study climate change and upper atmosphere of the Mars with the instruments loaded in it.

The missions from China and USA are also headed towards Mars as they all wanted to take the advantage of the proximity of the Red planet to Earth in the month of October.

NASA had stated that the Mars will be much closer to Earth due to planetary motions as compared to other times when the distance is more. T

The Red planet is expected to be 38.6 million miles or 62.07 million kilometres closer to Earth in the month of October which will be very beneficial to the Mars mission.

The UAE mission will not have a lander which will land on Mars as the USA or China is planning to carry out  but it is aimed at taking high resolution pictures and study the atmosphere of Mars for a complete martian year which consists of 687 days.

Image-Hope Scientific mission announcement event

Image- Mars Orbiter