The Emirates Mars Mission

H. E.S. Amiri, D. Brain, O. Sharaf, P. Withnell, M. McGrath, M. Alloghani, M. Al Awadhi, S. Al Dhafri, O. Al Hamadi, H. Al Matroushi, Z. Al Shamsi, O. Al Shehhi, M. Chaffin, J. Deighan, C. Edwards, N. Ferrington, B. Harter, G. Holsclaw, M. Kelly, D. KubitschekB. Landin, R. Lillis, M. Packard, J. Parker, E. Pilinski, B. Pramman, H. Reed, S. Ryan, C. Sanders, M. Smith, C. Tomso, R. Wrigley, H. Al Mazmi, N. Al Mheiri, M. Al Shamsi, E. Al Tunaiji, K. Badri, P. Christensen, S. England, M. Fillingim, F. Forget, S. Jain, B. M. Jakosky, A. Jones, F. Lootah, J. G. Luhmann, M. Osterloo, M. Wolff, M. Yousuf

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Abstract

The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) was launched to Mars in the summer of 2020, and is the first interplanetary spacecraft mission undertaken by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The mission has multiple programmatic and scientific objectives, including the return of scientifically useful information about Mars. Three science instruments on the mission’s Hope Probe will make global remote sensing measurements of the Martian atmosphere from a large low-inclination orbit that will advance our understanding of atmospheric variability on daily and seasonal timescales, as well as vertical atmospheric transport and escape. The mission was conceived and developed rapidly starting in 2014, and had aggressive schedule and cost constraints that drove the design and implementation of a new spacecraft bus. A team of Emirati and American engineers worked across two continents to complete a fully functional and tested spacecraft and bring it to the launchpad in the middle of a global pandemic. EMM is being operated from the UAE and the United States (U.S.), and will make its data freely available.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number4
JournalSpace Science Reviews
Volume218
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2022

Keywords

  • Atmosphere
  • EMM
  • Hope
  • Mars

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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