In some rare good news about international space cooperation, NASA and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency have agreed to share scientific data between two Mars probes — NASA’s MAVEN and the UAE’s Hope. These two spacecraft are both studying the Martian atmosphere in complementary ways. MAVEN studies the upper atmosphere and ionosphere, and Hope studies the upper and lower atmosphere. According to the MAVEN PI Shannon Curry: Combined, we will have a much better understanding of the coupling between the two, and the influence of the lower atmosphere on the escape to space of gas from the upper atmosphere.

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NASA Goddard press release