UAE's 'Hope' probe sends home first image of Mars

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Dubai (AFP) Feb 14, 2021

The UAE's "Hope" probe sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said Sunday, days after the spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit. The picture "captured the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, emerging into the early morning sunlight," it said in a statement. The image was taken from an altitude of 24,700 kilometres (15,300 miles) above

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