On Monday, the Hope space probe from the United Arab Emirates unveiled unprecedented details of Mars' smaller moon Deimos, providing new insights into the enigmatic, irregularly-shaped satellite's origin. For the past two years, the Arab world's first interplanetary mission, the Hope space probe, has been orbiting Mars, regularly passing by both Deimos and its more giant sibling moon, Phobos. During its closest approach, the investigation came within 110 kilometres (68 miles) of Deimos, a rocky object with a bean-shaped morphology that is only 12 kilometres wide, as reported by the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM).
Using instruments that measure infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths, the Al-Amal probe (which means "Hope" in Arabic) transmitted back to Earth the most precise images and observations of Deimos ever captured. Additionally, the probe conducted a first-time observation of the far side of the moon, uncovering previously unexplored regions whose compositions had never been studied. The mission's findings could potentially spark new debates about the origins of the peculiar moons in Martian orbit.
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