https://spacenews.com/hope-prepares-to-enter-orbit-around-mars/
And here is the (quite substantial) Feb 2nd webinar the article mentions, with updates from the UAE panel of experts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOgVvKqNvw&t=181s (cued to where it starts at 3-minute mark)
...and a parallel article from LASP with some helpful graphics.
https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/2021/02/04/emirates-mars-mission-to-arrive-at-mars-on-feb-9th-in-partnership-with-lasp-at-cu-boulder/
Orbit insertion at February 9, 2021 at 15:41 UTC!
Confirmed orbital insertion!
And an Arab team with 34% women. Sounds like success to me
Congrats to the UAE for MOI! Mars has a new satellite!
Bravo to the Arab and American teams involved in this succes!
Can't wait for the pictures of Mars taken from its equator!
Congrats to the Arabs for being number 5 on making it to the Red Planet!!!
Congratulations to the Hope team! Looking forward to many years of exploration and discovery.
Topic title changed; this will be the main mission coverage thread. Please minimize creation of additional threads unless and until major events and/or findings warrant same (i.e., things like news stories don't need their own discussion thread.) Thanks!
Word is we should get a first image next week.
Phil
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRKGstJ0eJ/
من ارتفاع ٢٥ ألف كم عن سطح الكوكب الأحمر .. أول صورة للمريخ بأول مسبار عربي في التاريخ"
The first picture of Mars captured by the first-ever Arab probe in history, 25,000 km above the Red Planet's surface."
Very beautiful!!!
The Emirates Mars Mission website is now posting the pictures from Hope (Al Amal), including an annotated version of the image above.
https://www.emiratesmarsmission.ae/gallery/images-of-hope-probe/1
This is the first image in full resolution from that website. Sincere thanks to the mission team for making this available. Check out the beautiful clouds in Valles Marineris. I have brightened the terminator area to bring out more detail. There are some faint features well beyond the terminator which might be high clouds, but also possibly artifacts of the camera or processing. If they don't appear in later images they may indeed be clouds.
Phil
Some new images have been posted to the Hope mission https://twitter.com/HopeMarsMission.
The Hope image is from February 2021.
The other image you linked to is not a single image, it is a mosaic of Viking images with synthetic color (because the Viking orbiters did not have modern color capabilities), rendered onto a sphere.
Phil
This page has the only images I know about.
Phil
https://www.emiratesmarsmission.ae/gallery/images-of-hope-probe/1
Hope raw images are now available.
https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae/
You will need to create a log-in to be able to view them.
I've uploaded an example raw, as well as a processed image by https://twitter.com/landru79/status/1447150429884895234/photo/1
Processed version of the first image of Mars taken by Hope.
https://flic.kr/p/2mzNeAB
Olympus Mons, imaged by Hope on February 26, 2021.
https://flic.kr/p/2mC4eac
Contrast increased:
https://flic.kr/p/2mC7ALL
And a rotated and cropped version:
https://flic.kr/p/2mC5s7z
Picture taken by Hope on 27 February 2021. The image is centered on the south-east side of Isidis Planitia. We see Elysium Mons near the limb.
https://flic.kr/p/2mFfRrt
Very nice, Thomas. You have done some very nice work with the Hope images. I always like to stretch the contrast at the terminator to see what might be found, and here we see some nice pre-dawn clouds north of Jezero crater.
Phil
I think that visible crater is Peridier, which can be found on this map:
https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/mc13_2014.pdf
Jezero would be right on the terminator and further south.
Phil
A crescent Mars imaged by Hope on 28 February 2021. We see Elysium Mons, Gale crater and even Mount Sharp!
https://flic.kr/p/2mG6gio
https://flic.kr/p/2mGbSkZ
Just had an email from the Emirates Mars Mission people:
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Dear EMM data user,
EMM Science Data Center team is delighted to announce the second release of the EMM scientific products. The released data includes scientific products from the three instruments on-board the probe; EXI, EMUS and EMIRS.
The released data includes observations collected between May 24, 2021 and Aug 31, 2021 as well as new version/revision of the data already released previously during the first data release. The levels of data release that are released for each instrument shown below:
EXI: L1, L2a, QL
EMUS: L1, L2a, L2b
EMIRS: L1a, L1b, L2, L2ql, L3emiss
The new data freely available and accessible through the mission science data center website: https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae
Instruments' data products guide documents are available on https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae/documentation
Sincerely
EMM SDC
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Phil
https://twitter.com/SarwatNasir/status/1497906147822641153
Hope images Phobos!
Phil
And now an exotic new aurora on Mars:
https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/2022/04/27/uaes-hope-spacecraft-discovers-mysterious-new-aurora-on-mars/
Phil
What do people feel is missing from the Science Data Center (https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae)? Additional product description? Missing documentation? Changes to search interface?
Dear Viking,
thank you for the excellent suggestions. I have previewed the public page again to jog my memory. I will submit 1 and 2 today, thank you.
What do you think of a Magnify Glass icon for the higher resolution data? The problem is this though
xos2 = 16x16 summing
xos1 = 2x2 for all, but 4x4 for RGB
xos4 = 2x2 for UV, 1x1 for RGB (but only taken once per week).
any suggestions that would help you here?
--mike
When looking at the pop-up quicklook page for an image - a row of download links to the various levels of calibrated FITS files rather than having to jump from the quicklook to the 'find related data' and the select and hit download on a specific L2A product would make it a little easier.
Also - the quicklook page having more search tools ( i.e. show me all the xos4 mode images in these three wavelengths from Date X to Date Y ) would be useful as well.
But this is all nitpicking - it's a great repository - and the weekly RGB xos4 image are spectacular.
David and Olivier --
I have asked for some features to be added QL page...and the ability to add some descriptive text. I will post when I am told that these are available.
regards,
mike
David and Olivier --
I have asked for some features to be added QL page...and the ability to add some descriptive text. I will post when I am told that these are available.
regards,
mike
Dear Olivier --
There may be some confusion, or the page has updated and didn't realize it. On the EXI Quicklook page, when you selelect multiple Quicklook files to download, they are coming down at the resolution that they were obtained. It is a question of the file type. xos2 are binned 16x16 to begin; xos1 are 2x2 binning (4x4 for B and G), BUT we wre using a region of interest, so the size of the image can be smaller that half of the detector...but at the resolution of the original observation. xos4 will have RGB at native resolution.
i have asked for a pulldown to select a specific XOSn for quick looks (among other options).
cordialement,
mike
still working with developers on this. there is more flexibiliy on the general data page, but I am pushing for more capability on the Quicklook page itself.
mike
https://www.timesaerospace.aero/news/space/hope-probe-to-move-to-a-new-mars-orbit-and-observe-deimos
This is very exciting to me. Phobos has been imaged thoroughly but Deimos is still very poorly covered. At least 30% of Deimos has only been seen in one single image (below), most of it with high sun angle (low phase), so no stereo for topography (the stereo pair image was hopelessly overexposed) and very poor knowledge of the terrain morphology. That big gap in the shape model means its shape is still poorly determined compared to many comparable objects. This new imaging campaign is very welcome and Hope is the only current mission with a chance of doing this. Looking forward to the results! A nice precursor to MMX.
Phil
Phil, that image is MEX or MRO-HiRise?
Viking Orbiter 1 image 507a01. Here is a larger version:
New images from the Deimos flyby (with Mars in the background!)https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01422-1
Observations apparently favour an origin as part of Mars, instead of being captured asteroids...
Here's my attempt at identifying features between the Viking and Hope images:
Yes! This image (below) is the only other time that the interior of that crater has been imaged:
When I saw the full colour picture with Mars in the background, it was so amazing I thought for a moment it was a fake.
https://twitter.com/SarahAmiri1/status/1650512802254057476/photo/1
https://twitter.com/HopeMarsMission/status/1713994481022693744
Another Deimos flyby in August. There are some images in the video.
Phil
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