• UAE’s ‘Hope’ probe, which was launched in July last year, is expected to reach Mars’ orbit on February 9.

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• The probe will reach Mars before the probes sent by China and the US, which were also launched in July.
• Earlier, China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft sent back its first Mars image which it took from a distance of around 2.2 million kilometres.