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News:The United Arab Emirates has used a novel approach to build the Hope spacecraft which will be launched in July,2020.

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About HOPE:

HOPE Spacecraft is also known as the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM).It will be Arab world’s first spacecraft to Mars.
Aim:To collect information on Mars and meteorological layers.It also seeks to study the causes of loss of hydrogen and oxygen gases from the upper layer of the Martian atmosphere.
The mission will become the first space exploration programme to take a picture of the Mars atmosphere.