Behold! See the 1st Mars closeup from UAE's Hope orbiter (photo).
By Meghan Bartels 7 hours ago
The UAE's Hope spacecraft's first photo of Mars from orbit, captured on Feb. 10, 2021.
(Image credit: MBRSC/UAE Space Agency/CU-LASP/EMM-EXI )
Just one day after arriving in orbit around Mars, the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) first interplanetary spacecraft, Hope, captured a stunning photograph of the Red Planet.
The new photo, which is the first since Hope's arrival in Mars orbit on Feb. 9, shows a smattering of clouds, four massive Martian mountains and the vast Valles Marineris — the largest canyon in the solar system — in the right side of the image.
"We couldn't have asked for a better day on Mars!" UAE Space Agency chairperson Sarah Al Amiri wrote in a tweet Sunday (Feb. 14). "Can't wait to see the science data come in so we can comprehensively characterize the lower atmosphere!"
The Hope spacecraft launched in July 2020, bound to study the weather and atmosphere of the Red Planet. Hope successfully executed a perilous 27-minute thruster burn on Feb. 9 to slip into orbit around Mars, making the UAE the fifth entity to visit the Red Planet. (China became the sixth the next day with its Tianwen-1 mission.)
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https://www.space.com/uae-hope-mars-spacecraft-first-close-photo?utm_source=notification
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