UAE Mars Mission: here’s what launch day will look like – The National

UAE Mars Mission: here’s what launch day will look like – The National

The Hope spacecraft has been fuelled and will be placed on the rocket next week

















































A first glimpse of the Mars Hope probe at Japan's Tanegashima Space Centre. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office







An engineer works on the Hope Probe in Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre. Wam







The Hope probe has three scientific instruments. This is the Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometre, which will measure the global distribution of dust, ice clouds, water vapour and the temperature of the Martian atmosphere. All photos courtesy of MBRSC.







Engineers had installed the Mars infrared spectrometre on the Hope probe at Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre' clean room. 







The Emirates Eploration Imager will take high-resolution images of Mars and will study its lower atmosphere.







The exploration imager has an autonomous digital camera and will send back high-resolution colour images.







The Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer will study the upper atmosphere and traces of oxygen and hydrogen. 







Emirati engineers at the Tanegashima Space Centre, carrying out tests ahead of the July 15