Learn about the Arab world's first Mars mission and its female leader
Dubai, 27, July, 2020, Monday
The Arab countries known for their oil and gas production lag behind Europe and the United States in scientific research. European countries have made great strides in space science but Arab countries are still dependent on borrowed technology. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is now gearing up to move forward in the field of space science. A 1.5 tonne spacecraft built by the UAE has been launched from the Tanegashima space center in Japan by an H-2A rocket. After a journey of Rs 50 crore, the spacecraft will reach Mars in February next year. The name of the UAE's Mars mission is Al Amal. In Arabic it means hope or hope mission.
The purpose of the Hope mission is to bring out the latest information about the air and water on Mars. It will also try to find out what happened on Mars that caused the loss of air and water. It will also research the dust that spreads on Mars in all types of weather. This dust affects the temperature of Mars. The UAE spacecraft will make its position in the equator to study Mars. At that time, its distance from Mars will be about 4.5 thousand km.
Earlier, the UAE had twice postponed the launch of Mars for technical reasons, but now the UAE has become the first Arab country to undertake such a scientific venture. Earlier, only the US, Europe, Russia and India had names in the Mars mission. The UAE has been trying to make a name for itself in the field of science and technology for the past five years. In 2013, he created the world's first Artificial Intelligence Department to enhance machine learning and similar advanced techniques.
Questions have been raised about women's rights and freedoms in the Arab world, but the UAE's Mars mission space program Hope is headed by a 6-year-old woman named Sara Ali Amiri, who is the deputy project manager and science lead of the Mars mission Whose average age is 6 to 8 years
In the UAE's science sector, women in traditional burqa attire are attracting attention, which is 5 per cent more than their country's workforce. Sara Ali Amiri first saw a picture of the Adromeda Galaxy when she was 16 years old. This galaxy is closest to our Milky Way. Seeing this picture made him interested in learning about space science. He did not even realize at the time that there was a science related to space in which research on this was done.
Born in 19, Sara Ali Amiri holds a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science from an American university in Sharjah. Al Amiri began his career as a computer engineer and then began researching in the field of space technology at the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology. She has worked as a software engineer at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai, where research was being carried out on the UAE's first satellite.
In 2012, he was appointed President of the Emirates Science Council and in 2014, the UAE Government handed over the Ministry of Science. Seven women have been appointed as ministers in Dubai's cabinet, which is 50 per cent of the UAE's cabinet. Amiri hopes that young people will be inspired to participate in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This is an infinite realm with no boundaries. Al Amiri's profile is not limited to space missions as he is the Minister of Advanced Science and wants to change the UAE's economy through science.
"We are experiencing a new kind of experience," he told the British science magazine Nature. We landed too late in the space science competition, but the spacecraft would have reached Mars only when the UAE was celebrating its 50th anniversary. If we talk about the next 20 years of the UAE, it is based on science and technology. Wants to create a system based on knowledge. Wants to earn income by using product name and knowledge. This is how all the sustainable economies of the world work.
Sara Ali Amiri also knows that this is a research development mission and it can fail. However, the experience or knowledge gained is more important than the failure or success. The government told the UAE's Mars mission project team that it would not buy any foreign or large company's spacecraft but would build a lot of satellites. However it became necessary to partner for experience with universities in a country like America.
Engineers and scientists from the UAE and the US have come together to design the spacecraft. Three devices have also been developed on the satellite that will study Mars. The University of Colorado Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics has designed the exterior of the satellite, while most of the work has been carried out at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center. A team of UAE scientists wanted to discover something new, not on what was discovered on Mars, so they went to NASA's Marcus Exploration Program Analysis Jupiter for guidance on the Mars mission.
The UAE does not have special experience but is coming out of the traditional crude oil economy and thinking of something new in the field of science. The Hope Mission is considered a source of inspiration for the Arab world to step into the new world. This will not only increase the interest in science among the youth of the Arab world, but will also enable them to think differently from the oil and gas based economy. Not all missions to Mars, known as the Red Planet, have been successful. This is exactly what the scientists in the UAE know, but the experience or knowledge that comes from success or failure in a research development mission is very important.
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