The UAE's "Hope" probe sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said Sunday, days after the spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit, AFP reported.
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The picture "captured the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, emerging into the early morning sunlight," the UAE said in a statement.
The image was taken from an altitude of 24,700 kilometers (15,300 miles) above the Martian surface on Wednesday, a day after the probe entered Mars' orbit, it said in a statement.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, UAE prime minister and Dubai's ruler, shared the colored image on Twitter.
"The first picture of Mars captured by the first-ever Arab probe in history," he wrote.
