Hope Probe’s data can give crucial input to India’s next Mars mission: ISRO – Saudi Gazette

  • Date: 17-Jul-2020
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Hope Probe’s data can give crucial input to India’s next Mars mission: ISRO – Saudi Gazette

ABU DHABI “”- The UAE's Hope Probe will be able to give crucial inputs to India's next Mars mission and open up new avenues of cooperation between both nations, a top scientist at Indian Space Research Organisation told UAE's news agency, WAM.

"Data from Hope Probe on the transport of dust and its large-scale movements on Mars and results on the loss of volatiles from Mars, will be an important input as India finalizes its plans for the next Indian mission to Mars," said R. Umamaheswaran, Scientific Secretary at ISRO."Joint research programs linked to these studies would be a new avenue for bilateral cooperation," he added.India was the first Asian country and the fourth one globally to join the exclusive club of nations that have reached Mars alongside the US, Russia, and the European Space Agency. With its indigenously made unmanned spacecraft, India became the first nation in the world to successfully reach Mars on its first attempt in 2014.Umamaheswaran made these comments as the UAE is preparing to launch the Hope Probe from Japan's Tanegashima Space Centre during a three-week-long window ending Aug. 3.

Weather conditions caused a delay to the scheduled launch twice “” July 14 and July 17.

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