![]() ![]() “I'm also very pleased with the colour image I made showing the Mariner Valley - Valles Marineris - and its neighbouring volcanoes. “I made that by stacking multiple images taken through different filters and then sharpened and enhanced it, but left it black and white because I love the starkness of it. ![]() “I love the black and white image I made showing a crescent Mars and the huge Olympus Mons volcano close to the terminator,” he told The National. Stuart Atkinson, an amateur astronomer in the UK, has processed some of the raw data from Hope’s exploration imager instrument – a high-resolution camera – to create images. Photo: Hope Mars mission / Dr Dimitra Atri Dr Dimitra Atri, a research scientist at the New York University in Abu Dhabi, processed this image. The UAE's spacecraft has taken the most detailed pictures of the discrete auroras to help scientists understand them better.Īpart from building research, the data from the spacecraft is also allowing space enthusiasts like Dr Atri and amateur astronomers to create stunning images of the planet.Ī stunning view of Valles Marineris, one of the largest canyons of the solar system. There are three types - proton, diffuse and discrete – because of the lack of a global magnetic field and localised crustal magnetic fields in the southern hemisphere. The auroras on Mars are different from the one on Earth. “We’ll be combining the data from the Maven and Mars Express missions, but Hope will give us a more in-depth understanding of not only aurora, but also how radiation interactions with Mars’ atmosphere.” You only get a partial picture of a planet from these missions, but Hope is much further away and it is going to add to what we know so far,” he told The National. “Each mission has its own area where it’s good, but has limitations. It is important to understand how radiation affects Mars, because strong solar winds stripped away its atmosphere in the early solar system and made the planet inhabitable. He has been studying data from Nasa’s Maven mission and Europe’s Mars Express mission to research hydrogen and oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere, and how the planet’s liquid water disappeared.ĭata from the Hope orbiter has helped fill in the gaps in Dr Atri’s research, in the area of how solar radiation interacts with the Martian atmosphere. Previous missions were much closer to the planetary surface, limiting observations to short periods and only certain areas of the planet.ĭr Dimitra Atri, a research scientist at the New York University in Abu Dhabi, is using Hope’s data to complete a research paper he hopes to publish. Unique observations of how gases interact with each other and affect solar radiation have been possible because of the spacecraft’s elliptical orbit. The circulation models are trying to capture what the data tells us, and the Mars mission is getting a unique perspective, so that’s an opportunity for us to try and compare and update our understanding of what’s happening in the Martian atmosphere.”Ī picture taken by the Hope probe for the spring season in the northern part of Mars. ![]() “That's the role of every mission that we get. “They’re refining the models that we're using to align them with what we see within the data. “The team is working to understand what has driven these structures to appear to be this way,” Hessa Al Matroushi, the science lead of the Emirates Mars Mission, told The National. Scientists are now trying to understand what this could mean for the planet’s atmosphere. Some of the latest findings showed dramatic variations in the concentrations of both atomic oxygen and carbon monoxide were present. ![]() Researchers are hoping to reveal more secrets about Mars’ mysterious atmosphere by using the data, including how the escape of gases such as oxygen is stripping away the planet’s atmosphere. Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre released 110 gigabytes of raw data to the public last week, with new sets to be published every three months. Scientists and amateur astronomers are benefitting from the treasure trove of data the UAE’s Hope probe has collected from Mars. ![]()
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