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What's in a name?
Everything, if you're going by the UAE's historic interplanetary mission that is all set to launch a spacecraft orbiter to Mars in less than eight hours.
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All eyes have been on the UAE's Mars Hope Probe over the last few weeks, as it prepares to blast off into space in order to study the Red Planet's atmosphere and climate like never before.
Video: UAE police patrols celebrate Hope with Mars mission logo
Now, the big moment is almost here - and there is just one word on everyone's lips: hope.
Open call
While the mission was first conceptualised in 2014, the unmanned probe's name was only announced a year later - the result of an open call by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.
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In a true representation of the collaborative efforts that have gone into the Mars mission, Sheikh Mohammed invited the Arab world to submit suggestions for the probe's name in a public campaign.
The orbiter's name was then announced in a Google+ post, where Sheikh Mohammed wrote: "After thousands of suggestions for the name of [the] Mars probe, we decided to name the probe 'Hope' as it sends a message of optimism to millions of young Arabs. Arab civilisation once played a great role in contributing to human knowledge, and will play that role again."
This is us. our dream, aspiration and inspiration. Always looking up to the sky and beyond. #HopeMarsMission pic.twitter.com/KZ0cbrRFGHHe added that the Emirates Mars Mission proves that "nothing is impossible", and that Arabs can compete with the "greatest of nations in the race for knowledge".
- Hope Mars Mission (@HopeMarsMission) July 19, 2020
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