Context: Recently, the first Arab interplanetary mission is expected to reach Mars’ orbit to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet.

About Arab World’s Mars Mission

• The unmanned space probe is named as Al-Amal, meaning “Hope” in Arabic.
• It was successfully launched from the Tanegashima Space Center near Minamitane, Japan.
• It is the first interplanetary mission from any Arab state built by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) together with US partners.

Significance of Hope Mission

• Hope will study the Martian atmosphere from an unusual elliptical orbit that allows it to observe almost the entire planet.
• It will produce the first global map of the Martian weather, over days and seasons.
• The data will reveal how atmospheric processes cause Mars to lose hydrogen and oxygen into space.