The first Arab space mission to Mars has blasted off aboard a rocket from Japan, with its unmanned probe – called Al-Amal, or Hope – successfully separating about an hour after liftoff.

A live feed of the launch showed the rocket carrying the probe lifting off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan at 6.58am (9.58pm GMT).

Almost exactly one hour later, the feed showed people applauding in the Japanese control room as the probe successfully detached.

In Dubai, the launch was met with rapturous excitement, with the UAE Mars mission’s deputy project manager Sarah al-Amiri declaring it “an indescribable feeling” to see the probe blasting off.

“This is the future of the UAE,” Amiri, who is also minister of state for advanced sciences, told Dubai TV from the launch site.

The Emirati project is one of three racing to Mars, including Tianwen-1 from China and Mars 2020 from the United States, taking advantage of a period when the Earth and Mars are nearest.

In October, Mars will be a comparatively short 38.6m miles (62m km) from Earth, according to Nasa.

Hope is expected to reach Mars’s orbit by February 2021, marking the 50th anniversary of the unification of the UAE, an alliance of seven emirates.

Unlike the two other Mars ventures scheduled for this year, it will not land on the planet, but instead orbit it for a whole Martian year, or 687 days.

While the objective of the Mars mission is to provide a comprehensive image of the weather dynamics in the red planet’s atmosphere, the probe is a foundation for a much bigger goal – building a human settlement on Mars within the next 100 years.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/20/uae-mission-mars-al-amal-hope-space

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-_O8wC06vI

Hopefully, Nigeria will get here one day..
Kudos to UAE

Naija which way ..... When we go laugh our own even if nah helicopter

Prechgold1180:
Naija which way ..... When we go laugh our own even if nah helicopter

One day........

This Arab world Eh... what is their plan

philiancoop:
This Arab world Eh... what is their plan

To develop their country and be in the same league with Top Class countries..

They are doing very well.

$200 million
The Emirates Mars Mission has cost $200 million, according to Minister for Advanced Sciences Sarah Amiri.

DMPaulSr:
$200 million
The Emirates Mars Mission has cost $200 million, according to Minister for Advanced Sciences Sarah Amiri.

That's 77,499,999,731 naira.
77 fûcking bills.. No wonder naija leaders no de think about am.
Oil money
Our country is not progressing like others. Just stagnant.. E pain meeeeeee

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wen tins go change for good in dis our kontry, abeg God help us

Hummmm.......

.......while the NDDC interim chairman dey faint for panel today, and Akpabio accusing the NASS of having 60% of the contract from NDDC.

https://www.nairaland.com/6003863/akpabio-60-nddc-contracts-awarded

Make dem dey continue. God dey.

Nigeria successfully launched 2020 edition of Big brother show as well yesterday.

When will this country rise to such occasion?

Our mumu never do.

Best of luck to them.

When will Nigeria ever launch their own

Great.


The UAE is a very serious country.
Good job

Even during this coro period Dubai is still breaking new ground , nice one

But wait when will Nigeria launch it's own , sorry it's government officials are still using coro as a tool for enbenzement and amass wealth illegally as the detriment of it's citizenry

Which way Nigeria

The rate at which this particular country developed is so overwhelming unlike Nigeria that is close to 60 years,yet she bears the tag "Developing"

What are black nations doing?

UAE in mars

Even if na baloon abeg make we self lunch something now

That's a great one .... Very soon we will send our first human to Mars

Na wa o... How did this UAE develop so quickly?? And one multi religious clowns can't even get education right??

Imagine UAE now sending missions to Mars, some multi tribal clowns cannot even vote right

COVID

When are we exploiting space??