UAE To Launch Its First-Ever Mars Mission Today

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ The United Arab Emirates heads towards Mars. The Emirates Mars Mission, which consists of an orbiter called Hope, is all set to launch a seven-month journey to Red Planet to study its atmosphere and weather today (July 19th). The launch was scheduled for earlier this week but was postponed due to bad weather. Hope will launch aboard a Japanese rocket from Tanegashima, Japan, and if all goes well, it will arrive at Mars in February 2021. After the US, the Soviet Union, the European Union, and India,…