https://spacenews.com/hope-prepares-to-ente...it-around-mars/

And here is the (quite substantial) Feb 2nd webinar the article mentions, with updates from the UAE panel of experts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOgVvKqNvw&t=181s (cued to where it starts at 3-minute mark)

...and a parallel article from LASP with some helpful graphics.
https://lasp.colorado.edu/home/2021/02/04/e...-at-cu-boulder/

Orbit insertion at February 9, 2021 at 15:41 UTC!

Confirmed orbital insertion!
And an Arab team with 34% women. Sounds like success to me
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Congrats to the UAE for MOI! Mars has a new satellite!

Bravo to the Arab and American teams involved in this succes!

Can't wait for the pictures of Mars taken from its equator!

Congrats to the Arabs for being number 5 on making it to the Red Planet!!!

Congratulations to the Hope team! Looking forward to many years of exploration and discovery.

Topic title changed; this will be the main mission coverage thread. Please minimize creation of additional threads unless and until major events and/or findings warrant same (i.e., things like news stories don't need their own discussion thread.) Thanks!

Word is we should get a first image next week.

Phil

https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRKGstJ0eJ/
من ارتفاع ٢٥ ألف كم عن سطح الكوكب الأحمر .. أول صورة للمريخ بأول مسبار عربي في التاريخ"

‏The first picture of Mars captured by the first-ever Arab probe in history, 25,000 km above the Red Planet's surface."


Very beautiful!!!

The Emirates Mars Mission website is now posting the pictures from Hope (Al Amal), including an annotated version of the image above.

https://www.emiratesmarsmission.ae/gallery/...of-hope-probe/1

This is the first image in full resolution from that website. Sincere thanks to the mission team for making this available. Check out the beautiful clouds in Valles Marineris. I have brightened the terminator area to bring out more detail. There are some faint features well beyond the terminator which might be high clouds, but also possibly artifacts of the camera or processing. If they don't appear in later images they may indeed be clouds.

Phil

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Some new images have been posted to the Hope mission twitter account.

The shading around the summit of Olympus Mons looks like a love heart. Nice pics.

i should make a map from this 2021(?) image

its very stunning though, it looks different from past mars images like this one
https://mars.nasa.gov/system/content_pages/...8_marsglobe.jpg

The Hope image is from February 2021.
The other image you linked to is not a single image, it is a mosaic of Viking images with synthetic color (because the Viking orbiters did not have modern color capabilities), rendered onto a sphere.

Phil

any other 2021 hope full spere mars (like that one image antdog and i sent) images i can compile into a map?

This page has the only images I know about.
Phil
https://www.emiratesmarsmission.ae/gallery/...of-hope-probe/1

Hope raw images are now available.
https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae/

You will need to create a log-in to be able to view them.
I've uploaded an example raw, as well as a processed image by landru79

Processed version of the first image of Mars taken by Hope.

Olympus Mons, imaged by Hope on February 26, 2021.



Contrast increased:


And a rotated and cropped version:

Picture taken by Hope on 27 February 2021. The image is centered on the south-east side of Isidis Planitia. We see Elysium Mons near the limb.

Very nice, Thomas. You have done some very nice work with the Hope images. I always like to stretch the contrast at the terminator to see what might be found, and here we see some nice pre-dawn clouds north of Jezero crater.

Phil

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Thanks Phil, and really nice contrasted version! Is Jezero the crater just near the terminator?

I think that visible crater is Peridier, which can be found on this map:

https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/mc13_2014.pdf

Jezero would be right on the terminator and further south.

Phil

A crescent Mars imaged by Hope on 28 February 2021. We see Elysium Mons, Gale crater and even Mount Sharp!

Just had an email from the Emirates Mars Mission people:

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Dear EMM data user,

EMM Science Data Center team is delighted to announce the second release of the EMM scientific products. The released data includes scientific products from the three instruments on-board the probe; EXI, EMUS and EMIRS.

The released data includes observations collected between May 24, 2021 and Aug 31, 2021 as well as new version/revision of the data already released previously during the first data release. The levels of data release that are released for each instrument shown below:

EXI: L1, L2a, QL
EMUS: L1, L2a, L2b
EMIRS: L1a, L1b, L2, L2ql, L3emiss

The new data freely available and accessible through the mission science data center website: https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae

Instruments' data products guide documents are available on https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae/documentation

Sincerely

EMM SDC

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Phil

https://twitter.com/SarwatNasir/status/1497906147822641153

Hope images Phobos!

Phil

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And now an exotic new aurora on Mars:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/2022/04...aurora-on-mars/

Phil

What do people feel is missing from the Science Data Center (https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae)? Additional product description? Missing documentation? Changes to search interface?

Thanks a lot mwolff

If I may recommend, please (I'm building a lot of outreach campaigns for National non-profit organizations in France):

1. A download option from the "EXI Quicklook" page to directly retrieve the full-res images (PNG and/or JPEG formatted) is really missing.
This would help a lot to download full-res images by clicking on the quicklook images;

2. A color code on the "EXI Quicklook" page showing the filters with which the images were taken should be added also, and especially for blue/green/red images from which full color images can be built, (i.e. for example, blue/green/red bars for the blue/green/red filters).

All this would help a lot for UAE HOPE mission outreach and for educational purposes also

Dear Viking,

thank you for the excellent suggestions. I have previewed the public page again to jog my memory. I will submit 1 and 2 today, thank you.

What do you think of a Magnify Glass icon for the higher resolution data? The problem is this though

xos2 = 16x16 summing
xos1 = 2x2 for all, but 4x4 for RGB
xos4 = 2x2 for UV, 1x1 for RGB (but only taken once per week).

any suggestions that would help you here?


--mike

When looking at the pop-up quicklook page for an image - a row of download links to the various levels of calibrated FITS files rather than having to jump from the quicklook to the 'find related data' and the select and hit download on a specific L2A product would make it a little easier.

Also - the quicklook page having more search tools ( i.e. show me all the xos4 mode images in these three wavelengths from Date X to Date Y ) would be useful as well.

But this is all nitpicking - it's a great repository - and the weekly RGB xos4 image are spectacular.

Dear Mike,
Thanks a lot for your kind answer, much appreciated
In fact, a download option for full resolution images in readily viewable formats (such as 'JPEG' and/or 'PNG') would be already a great improvement to raise interest in the widest public audience possible for this spectacular mission.
A 'Magnify Glass icon', would be an interesting improvement too, but I think that it is not an essential one: by downloading high resolution images on your computer, you can zoom on them directly on your screen.
Thanks a lot in advance in advance for submitting those improvements and with warmest regards,
Olivier (aka 'Vikingmars')

David and Olivier --

I have asked for some features to be added QL page...and the ability to add some descriptive text. I will post when I am told that these are available.

regards,

mike


David and Olivier --

I have asked for some features to be added QL page...and the ability to add some descriptive text. I will post when I am told that these are available.

regards,

mike

Dear Olivier --

There may be some confusion, or the page has updated and didn't realize it. On the EXI Quicklook page, when you selelect multiple Quicklook files to download, they are coming down at the resolution that they were obtained. It is a question of the file type. xos2 are binned 16x16 to begin; xos1 are 2x2 binning (4x4 for B and G), BUT we wre using a region of interest, so the size of the image can be smaller that half of the detector...but at the resolution of the original observation. xos4 will have RGB at native resolution.

i have asked for a pulldown to select a specific XOSn for quick looks (among other options).


cordialement,

mike

Oh my god you've gone full MER Prime Mission pancam with the thing.

still working with developers on this. there is more flexibiliy on the general data page, but I am pushing for more capability on the Quicklook page itself.

mike

Dear Mike.
Thank you so much for your efforts, much appreciated

Hope probe moves to new orbit to observe Deimos

This is very exciting to me. Phobos has been imaged thoroughly but Deimos is still very poorly covered. At least 30% of Deimos has only been seen in one single image (below), most of it with high sun angle (low phase), so no stereo for topography (the stereo pair image was hopelessly overexposed) and very poor knowledge of the terrain morphology. That big gap in the shape model means its shape is still poorly determined compared to many comparable objects. This new imaging campaign is very welcome and Hope is the only current mission with a chance of doing this. Looking forward to the results! A nice precursor to MMX.

Phil

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Phil, that image is MEX or MRO-HiRise?

Viking Orbiter 1 image 507a01. Here is a larger version:

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Neither MEX nor MRO can get round the back of Deimos to view this region. Since Viking, only India's MOM has seen this region and that was at VERY low resolution. The bright spot on the limb at about 11 o'clock is a crater which has only ever been seen by Viking in this image and by Mariner 9. That's how poor our imaging coverage is.

Phil

Thanks a lot Phil: this is one of my favorite images from the Viking missions!

New images from the Deimos flyby (with Mars in the background!) released

Observations apparently favour an origin as part of Mars, instead of being captured asteroids...

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Deimos fly-by sequence from the animation frames in the press release. It's nice to have new views, but I'm not sure that crater Phil was talking about is visible.

Here's my attempt at identifying features between the Viking and Hope images:
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It seems the bright crater Phil pointed out (at around 11 o'clock on the rim in the Viking frame) is visible in the Hope images.

Yes! This image (below) is the only other time that the interior of that crater has been imaged:

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That was the last of 9 images of Deimos taken by Mariner 9. As noted earlier, Viking caught it on the limb.

Phil

High(er) resolution colour image. Astounding!

When I saw the full colour picture with Mars in the background, it was so amazing I thought for a moment it was a fake.

https://twitter.com/SarahAmiri1/status/1650...4057476/photo/1

https://twitter.com/HopeMarsMission/status/...994481022693744

Another Deimos flyby in August. There are some images in the video.

Phil

Two images from that flyby:

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Phil