The United Arab Emirates will launch a brand new area mission to discover Venus and the photo voltaic system’s asteroid belt, the UAE authorities introduced in a tweet Tuesday.
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Plans embrace a craft touchdown on one of many asteroids, marking the primary time an Arab area mission has landed on an asteroid, Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid stated in a tweet.
“The launch of a brand new challenge to discover Venus and the asteroid belt units an formidable new objective for our nation’s burgeoning area program,” stated Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of capital Abu Dhabi in a tweet.
“The UAE is decided to make a significant contribution to area exploration, scientific analysis and our understanding of the photo voltaic system.”
Mars has already been focused by the UAE’s area program with its Hope probe, which entered the pink planet’s orbit in February 2021.
Hope is gathering knowledge about Mars’ environment by utilizing numerous seen gentle and infrared cameras.
The asteroid mission will contain a 3.6 billion kilometer journey, seven occasions farther from Earth than the Emirates Mars Mission, Mohammed bin Rashid stated in a tweet.
Venus, alternatively, is lower than half the space of Mars from earth, at 128 million kilometers in comparison with Mars’ 395 million kilometers.
Venus is the closest planet to Earth and was the primary to be explored by spacecraft with NASA’s Mariner 2, which flew by in 1962.
A number of Soviet craft landed on the planet’s floor, however didn’t survive lengthy as a result of intense air stress (equal to at least one mile underwater on earth) and temperature, which is round 475 levels Celsius on the floor.
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