Question: In which of the following year UAE is going to launch a probe for an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter?
a) 2024
b) 2028
c) 2033
d) None of these
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:-
- On 05 October 2021; The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced plans to send a probe in the year 2028, to land on an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.
- It is the latest project planned by the scientists in UAE for its ambitious space programme.
- This kind of probe will be equipped with instruments to collect data, from this asteroid.
- The data which will be gathered by this probe later examined to disclose about the origins of the universe.
- The project targets a 2028 launch with a landing in 2033.
- It will be a five-year journey in which the spacecraft will travel some 3.6 billion kilometres (2.2 billion miles).
- The UAE’s Space Agency said it will partner with the Laboratory for Atmospheric Science and Physics at the University of Colorado on the project.
- It should be noted that UAE successfully put its Amal, or Hope, probe in orbit around Mars in February.