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Detailed explanation-1: -The Hope probe was launched from Japan by a Japanese H-IIA launch vehicle, built and operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) on 19 July 2020 and arrived at Mars on 9 February 2021. It became the first mission to Mars by any West Asian, Arab or Muslim-majority country.
Detailed explanation-2: -About: The UAE’s Mars Mission called ‘Hope’ was announced in 2015 with the aim of creating mankind’s first integrated model of the Red planet’s (Mars) atmosphere.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1971, the Soviet Union finally reached the Red Planet. Its Mars 2 orbiter, which launched May 19, 1971, arrived on Nov. 2. However, when the Mars 2 lander was deployed it crashed, inoperable, on the surface.
Detailed explanation-4: -The UAE became only the fifth nation – after the US, Russia, China and India – to reach Mars, and only the second space agency to succeed on the first attempt (after India). You might also like: The Mars rover that came to life.