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Dubai: Yamama Badwan
The Emirates Mars Exploration Project, the “Hope Probe”, revealed scientific data on carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of the red planet, through a spectrometer with ultraviolet rays, with a wavelength, which is referred to as far ultraviolet rays.
The project explained in a tweet on Twitter that the difference in the relative abundance of carbon monoxide contributes with the passage of time and change of location, by providing valuable information related to temperatures and winds in the middle atmosphere of Mars, as well as the nature of chemical processes that balance the atmosphere of the red planet.
The project said that the images it published show the process of converting observations of far ultraviolet rays into a relative abundance of carbon monoxide in the upper atmosphere of Mars, where these data can be viewed through the project’s scientific data center. In another tweet, the project announced the publication of the research paper titled “The Process of Retrieving the Relative Abundance of Column Carbon Monoxide in the Martian Thermosphere,” by Scott Evans and co-authors, as part of a special issue of the first results of the Hope Probe published in Geophysical Research Letters.
He added that he participated in the preparation of the scientific paper, J. Scott Evans, John Corera, Justin Degan, Sonal Jane, Hessa Al Matrooshi, Hoor Al Mazmi, Michael Chavin, Shannon Curry, Scott England, Frank Ebarvier, Matt Villingem, François Forger, Greg Holsclau, Robert Lillis, Ed Thiemann and Fatma Lotta. In the same context, the Hope Probe is preparing to provide the fifth package of scientific data for the Red Planet in early October, through the platform of the Information Center of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, to confirm the commitment of the UAE to share these valuable scientific data with the scientific community in the world for free, in order to Helping scientists, researchers, and those interested in space sciences understand the phenomena and interactions that occur in the atmosphere of Mars; Where the data is published every 3 months.
Since its arrival in the orbit of the Red Planet in February 2021, the probe has been able to provide 4 packages of high-quality data and images, with a total of 688.5 gigabytes, and to record new discoveries of climatic phenomena on the Red Planet.
According to the schedule prepared in advance for the mission, the probe will spend on the Red Planet two Earth years, which is equivalent to one Mars year, but depending on the answers that data and images will provide to the main scientific questions of the project, it is likely that the mission will be extended for an Earth year or less, despite the design of The probe to live on Mars 4 years, at least. Also, with the end of the probe’s mission next year 2023, it will finish mapping the Martian atmosphere. The fourth package was published in early August, amounting to 118.5 gigabytes of data, which provided a new set of scientific observations of the atmosphere of Mars, the most prominent of which were the observations monitored by the ultraviolet spectrometer, providing better monitoring of Martian aurora, and monitoring of solar energy particles and cosmic rays. Hungarian, through an experiment he conducted by observing what the device captures when it is turned off. The digital exploration camera was also able to capture high-resolution special pictures, by monitoring the movement of dust on January 9 and 29 and February 23 of this year.
In early April, the project published the third package of data of 29 gigabytes, which was collected by the probe between September 1 and November 30, 2021, which contributes to helping experts and scientists expand their understanding of climate change on the Red Planet, especially that the digital exploration camera monitored 9 images on the day. November 22, 2021, to study the movement of winds, observing the phenomenon of cloud formation, and the movement of dust storms.
The project also provided, in early February, the second package of scientific data, amounting to 76.5 gigabytes of unmodified data, between May 23 and August 31, 2021.
In early October of last year, the project provided the first package of scientific data, amounting to 110 gigabytes, which was collected by the three scientific devices of the probe between February 9 and May 22, 2021, and during the first 10 days of publishing this data and making it available to the scientific community in the world and those interested in space science, download 2 terabytes of information from the scientific data center on the “Probe of Hope” website, including 1.5 terabytes in the form of data from the exploration camera, bringing the volume of scientific data in the first and second batches and the updated version of the first batch data to 312 gigabytes, while the size of the files downloaded was 6.1 terabytes.
The Emirates Mars Exploration Project, the “Hope Probe”, revealed scientific data on carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of the red planet, through a spectrometer with ultraviolet rays, with a wavelength, which is referred to as far ultraviolet rays.
The project explained in a tweet on Twitter that the difference in the relative abundance of carbon monoxide contributes with the passage of time and change of location, by providing valuable information related to temperatures and winds in the middle atmosphere of Mars, as well as the nature of chemical processes that balance the atmosphere of the red planet.
The project said that the images it published show the process of converting observations of far ultraviolet rays into a relative abundance of carbon monoxide in the upper atmosphere of Mars, where these data can be viewed through the project’s scientific data center. In another tweet, the project announced the publication of the research paper titled “The Process of Retrieving the Relative Abundance of Column Carbon Monoxide in the Martian Thermosphere,” by Scott Evans and co-authors, as part of a special issue of the first results of the Hope Probe published in Geophysical Research Letters.
He added that he participated in the preparation of the scientific paper, J. Scott Evans, John Corera, Justin Degan, Sonal Jane, Hessa Al Matrooshi, Hoor Al Mazmi, Michael Chavin, Shannon Curry, Scott England, Frank Ebarvier, Matt Villingem, François Forger, Greg Holsclau, Robert Lillis, Ed Thiemann and Fatma Lotta. In the same context, the Hope Probe is preparing to provide the fifth package of scientific data for the Red Planet in early October, through the platform of the Information Center of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, to confirm the commitment of the UAE to share these valuable scientific data with the scientific community in the world for free, in order to Helping scientists, researchers, and those interested in space sciences understand the phenomena and interactions that occur in the atmosphere of Mars; Where the data is published every 3 months.
Since its arrival in the orbit of the Red Planet in February 2021, the probe has been able to provide 4 packages of high-quality data and images, with a total of 688.5 gigabytes, and to record new discoveries of climatic phenomena on the Red Planet.
According to the schedule prepared in advance for the mission, the probe will spend on the Red Planet two Earth years, which is equivalent to one Mars year, but depending on the answers that data and images will provide to the main scientific questions of the project, it is likely that the mission will be extended for an Earth year or less, despite the design of The probe to live on Mars 4 years, at least. Also, with the end of the probe’s mission next year 2023, it will finish mapping the Martian atmosphere. The fourth package was published in early August, amounting to 118.5 gigabytes of data, which provided a new set of scientific observations of the atmosphere of Mars, the most prominent of which were the observations monitored by the ultraviolet spectrometer, providing better monitoring of Martian aurora, and monitoring of solar energy particles and cosmic rays. Hungarian, through an experiment he conducted by observing what the device captures when it is turned off. The digital exploration camera was also able to capture high-resolution special pictures, by monitoring the movement of dust on January 9 and 29 and February 23 of this year.
In early April, the project published the third package of data of 29 gigabytes, which was collected by the probe between September 1 and November 30, 2021, which contributes to helping experts and scientists expand their understanding of climate change on the Red Planet, especially that the digital exploration camera monitored 9 images on the day. November 22, 2021, to study the movement of winds, observing the phenomenon of cloud formation, and the movement of dust storms.
The project also provided, in early February, the second package of scientific data, amounting to 76.5 gigabytes of unmodified data, between May 23 and August 31, 2021.
In early October of last year, the project provided the first package of scientific data, amounting to 110 gigabytes, which was collected by the three scientific devices of the probe between February 9 and May 22, 2021, and during the first 10 days of publishing this data and making it available to the scientific community in the world and those interested in space science, download 2 terabytes of information from the scientific data center on the “Probe of Hope” website, including 1.5 terabytes in the form of data from the exploration camera, bringing the volume of scientific data in the first and second batches and the updated version of the first batch data to 312 gigabytes, while the size of the files downloaded was 6.1 terabytes.