UAE gears up for Mars mission

23-05-2015 Sat 16:10 | International | IANS

Abu Dhabi, May 23: State-owned Masdar Institute of Science and Technology is ramping up its efforts to support the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in achieving its goal of sending an unmanned space probe to Mars by 2021, a media report said on Saturday. The initiative for the UAE's Mars mission, named "Hope", the first in the Arab world, was launched in October. Masdar Institute is also a member of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre’s science and research team, which is one of the seven teams of UAE national scientists that have been established to cover all aspects of the Mars mission. The institute is also tasked with planning science objectives, implementing data gathering resources to meet objectives and complete analysis of incoming scientific data from the mission.

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