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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates unveiled plans Monday to send a spaceship to explore the solar system’s main asteroid belt, the latest space project by the oil-rich ...

The Main Asteroid Belt is dominated by four worlds—Ceres, Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea—though the new mission will ultimately target one very special red asteroid called (269) Justitia. MORE FROM ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates unveiled plans Monday to send a spaceship to explore the solar system’s main asteroid belt, the latest space project by the oil-rich ...

UAE heading to asteroid belt as it announces new space mission. ... Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt. This ambitious 13-year project involves 6 years of development and 7 years of exploration.

Dubbed the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, the project aims to develop a spacecraft in the coming years and then launch it in 2028 to study various asteroids.

In February 2030, the spacecraft will arrive at Westerwald, a 1.4-mile-wide asteroid, zipping past at 20,000 miles per hour on its way to visit six more objects in the asteroid belt between Mars ...

A better understanding of the asteroid belt has revealed just how dynamic the solar system was in its early days, ... for example, astronomers ... Santa Cruz. To find out what his latest project ...

The aim is for the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) to visit its first asteroid in 2030. It will visit a number of asteroids in the belt between Mars and Jupiter, following a launch in ...

The object is likely the smallest observed to date by Webb and may be an example of an object measuring under 1 kilometer in length within the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter.

Early measurements showed asteroids in the inner part of the main asteroid belt were more reflective and appear subtly ‘redder’ than the outer, ‘bluer’ ones 3,4,5,6.In the 1980s, distinct ...