00:00The Moon is an excellent platform to test new technologies.
00:11The Emirates lunar mission is the first mission by the Emirates to send a robot to the surface of another celestial body
00:20and it will give us the opportunity to develop our capabilities
00:25in developing such technologies for future missions to the lunar surface as well as to Mars.
00:32The mission is unique in terms of the fact that the rover, the Roche rover, will explore a new area
00:39and a new location on the surface of the Moon that was not explored before.
00:44That will give us an opportunity to generate a huge amount of very useful science data
00:50for the international science community to study the lunar surface,
00:55to understand the geography and the physical property of the lunar surface.
01:03The Moon is an excellent platform to test new technologies and to do useful science
01:11since it is our closest neighbor compared to other celestial bodies and compared to Mars.
01:19To develop a mission to the Moon is much more convenient than developing a mission to Mars and other celestial bodies.
01:27So in order to develop our capabilities, it's an excellent opportunity to use the Moon as such a platform.
01:35Now, the Global Exploration Roadmap that was published recently
01:41emphasizes the fact that all international efforts need to be focused on the Moon to develop the Moon as a gateway.
01:50The missions to Mars and other planets should start from the Moon as a gateway
01:56so that we can use the Moon as a base station where we fuel,
02:03where we start our journey to the outer space and to far celestial bodies.
02:10Technologies, especially space technologies, require a long time to be developed.
02:15And to test those technologies requires a lot of effort and a lot of resources and money in order to test those technologies.
02:22So it is easier and more cost-effective and efficient to test those technologies on the surface of the Moon
02:30before making sure that they are ready to be used on missions for Mars and other planets.
02:40So this is why the Immersed Lunar Missions falls under the Mars 2117 program,
02:46which states that UAE has an ambitious plan to build a human settlement on the surface of Mars by 2170.
02:58I'm responsible for the communications subsystem that we have on Roshan.
03:03So my daily task is about making sure that the design of those subsystems work properly.
03:12Also, I'm part of the science team where we make sure that all the science instruments that we have onboard Roshan
03:25can have significant output once we have Roshan onboard.
03:32In general, Roshan will answer many science questions that we have on science,
03:38like the formation of the Moon and the Moon itself as part of the solar system.
03:44It will study the chemical and geology of the lunar sand.
03:53Also, it will study, as Dr. Ahmed mentioned, the electron sheet that we have on top of the lunar surface.
03:59Besides, we will study the thermal environment on the lunar surface.
04:04This has never been done before.
04:06All the inputs or results that we have about the thermal environment were taken from an orbiter.
04:15So this will be the first mission to study the thermal behavior of the rocks and sand from very close areas.
04:24I'm responsible for the ground control system.
04:28So anything related to issuing commands and receiving data from the rover
04:35will be handed by the software that we are designing and developing in Muhammad Rush Space Center.
04:42So the main goal of this system is to command the rover.
04:47Any command will be sent from Emirates Lunar Mission software, control software, to the rover using this system.
04:54And the telemetry that we are going to receive and we will analyze those telemetry
05:01to check the health of the rover based on that software tool.
05:12NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
05:15California Institute of Technology
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