Amna Al Ketbi (Dubai)
The Scientific Data Center at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center is responsible for preparing scientific data for the Hope Probe project, which is distributed to the Emirates Mars Exploration Project team and the scientific community, in addition to facilitating the exploration and use of scientific data, and the preservation of all scientific data throughout the duration of the mission.
The team is working on creating an archive to save this data after the end of the mission. The standard scientific outputs that the center will work on include scientific data of the first and second levels, which are the data that will be published for the MBRSC team. The center also receives level zero data and additional data from The mission operations center, and the scientific instrumentation development team is working on developing a program to process scientific data from level zero and extract scientific summary data and data for levels one and two as needed.
The center works to preserve the scientific data that is extracted throughout the mission period, and to create platforms through which to access scientific data, analyze basic data, and provide all data through visual rendering tools, in close cooperation with the scientific team of the Emirates Mars Exploration Project. After the mission is completed, it will establish The center is an archive of public data and a platform through which the data of the Emirates Mars Exploration Project can be accessed and used in future missions to explore the Red Planet.
This team uses the capabilities and operational capabilities of the (OASIS-CC) program to control scientific instruments and the remote sensing process. It also works on calibrating the resulting data, managing data and indicators of scientific devices, and ensuring that the required command from the probe is implemented. The team will also develop a program for processing scientific data from level zero and extracting summary scientific data and data of the first and second levels as needed.
The Emirates Mars Exploration Project, “Probe of Hope”, published 7 new photos taken by the digital exploration camera, showing clouds on the edge of Mars, which are clouds on the edge of the red planet as seen by the spacecraft, and the pictures were taken successively at the beginning of this year, specifically on 9 and 15 And January 20, 22, 30 and 31, 2022, and the scientific importance of the clouds on the tip of Mars lies in the possibility of determining their height from the surface of Mars, as these images were processed by Jay Cessna, a student at the University of Colorado Boulder.
The Hope Probe project recently announced the provision of a new set of scientific observations related to the atmosphere of Mars, as part of the fourth batch of scientific data related to the mission. These devices and the amazing performance they offer; The total data collected by the Hope probe about the atmosphere of the red planet reached 118.5 gigabytes, with the release of the fourth batch of information, images and data with a size of 688.5 gigabytes.
The fourth batch of data and information was shared with the scientific community and those interested in astronomy around the world, through the data center on the project’s official website; The data is issued every 3 months after all the data collected by the scientific devices of the Hope Probe are classified and processed by the team.