#NYT 📆 May 29, 2023 #UAE 🇦🇪 #AsteroidBelt ☄️ mission : The #MBRExplorer is scheduled to sidle up within a few hundred feet of #Justitia in 📆 October 2034 and spend at least seven months studying it with cameras 🎥 and #spectrometers that will be able to identify the #asteroid’s #composition, including the presence of water 💧. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/science/uae-asteroid-mission.html

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Picture : #NASA #ISRU Pilot Excavator https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISRU_Pilot_Excavator_(KSC-20220728-PH-FMX01_0140).jpeg

MBR Explorer: UAE Plans Space Mission to Explore Asteroid Belt

After a successful mission to Mars, the Emirati space agency is planning a tour of the debris field between Mars and Jupiter, with a focus on one of its most intriguing objects.

The New York Times