Mars: The North Polar Cap | United Arab Emirates Hope Mission

Mars: The North Polar Cap | United Arab Emirates Hope Mission

The north polar ice cap on Mars spans approximately 1000 km during the northern Mars summer. Like Earth, Mars has frozen polar caps, but unlike Earth, these caps are made of carbon dioxide ice as well as water ice. 

The Emirates Mars Mission is a United Arab Emirates (UAE) Space Agency uncrewed space exploration mission to Mars. The Hope orbiter was launched on July 19, 2020, and went into orbit around Mars on February 9, 2021. The mission design, development, and operations are led by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC). The spacecraft was assembled in the United States at the University of Colorado Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), with support from Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of California, Berkeley.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Credit: ©UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck

Filters: R+G+B (+5% UV to enhance the clouds)

Spacecraft Altitude: 26 813 km

Image Date: November 8, 2021

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