World praises UAE on successful launch of Mars Hope probe

World praises UAE on successful launch of Mars Hope probe

World praises UAE on successful launch of Mars Hope probe

World praises UAE on successful launch of Mars Hope probe

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A picture taken on July 19, 2020, shows a screen broadcasting the launch of the "Hope“ Mars probe at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai. The probe is one of three racing to the Red Planet, with Chinese and US rockets also taking advantage of the Earth and Mars being unusually close: a mere hop of 55 million kilometers. (AFP)

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An H-2A rocket carrying the Hope Probe known as "Al-Amal" in Arabic, developed by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in the UAE to explore Mars, blasts off from Tanegashima Space Centre in southwestern Japan. (AFP/Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)

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World praises UAE on successful launch of Mars Hope probe

Emirates Mars Mission 'constitutes a national and Arab achievement'

UAE will be the ninth country to explore the Red Planet

Updated 20 July 2020

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DUBAI: The UAE has received global praise for the "historic“ launch of its Mars space probe.

The Hope probe blasted off early Monday from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, making the Emirates the first Arab and Islamic country to attempt planetary exploration.

President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed led