United Arab Emirates (UAE) is developing a mission of the space port. After sending a satellite to explore the planet Mars, now the country shows its ambitions with a plan to plant palm trees and lettuce on the Red planet.
Plan the planting of palm trees on the Planet Mars spelled out in the Dubai Airshow which includes a variety of exhibitions, conferences, and speakers, among others, former NASA astronaut Nasa Apollo 15, Al Worden.
There are similarities between the planets Mars and the desert,” said Rashid Al Zaabi, a strategic planner senior in the UAE Space Agency. “The structure of the soil together with the UAE.”
So, the UAE decided to poured funds into two research projects, namely the planting of palm trees, tomatoes, and strawberries on Mars.
“Well, when we get there, we have to eat,” said Al Zaabi.
Palm tree chosen to be planted there because there’s a chance they can grow on Mars, said Al Zaabi.
Although this sounds strange, but there’s a reason the underlying economy. The UAE, particularly Dubai and Abu Dhabi, trying to pump up the economy to the front in preparation for an end to the era of oil.
This begins with the development of the tourism industry and aviation, as well as related services and techniques that accompany it. Now the UAE is turning to the science and development of cutting-edge technology.
“There are 100 million young people in the Arab region,” said Omran Sharaf, the manager in the research project Mars Mission. “
“We want them to play a role in the future and bring this country to the next level. “(The population of the UAE is about nine million, of which only 1.4 million are citizens of the Emirates).
“This is about creating a economy based on oil material, knowledge, creative economy. So, it is important for us to be a science. We have spawned a lot of engineers, but not many scientists. Project Mars’s purely a scientific mission,” he added.
The UAE has invested more than USD$5.4 billion in the sector of space, including a variety of channels.
The results of the assessment on the planet Mars were presented in detail in the exhibition space.
The space agency in the country revealed, satellite survey developed using a team deliberately created by people Emiratis will search for water and assess the condition of the atmosphere.
The UAE is also already started working on the Mars Science City, a research center dedicated to the study of the colonization of the planet. A series of dome in the desert, with a living space and research facilities covering an area of two million square feet, will investigate the needs of food, water and energy.
Mars mission is to make the UAE one of the nine countries that explores how to get to the planet, Sharaf said: “This means our investments in facilities and education – science, laboratories, universities – will be very large.”
And, according to a former pilot of Apollo 15, Al Worden, it also requires international cooperation. He was impressed with the ambition of the project UAE, and what has been achieved so far. But he added: “the Scale of the challenge of the technology would be too much for one country.”
The purpose of showing the space industry is to attract international experts to participate, said Yousuf Hamad Al Shaibani, director general of the center space Mohammed Bin Rashid.
To accentuate the industrial space in the Dubai Airshow this week means the “opportunity to meet with companies and institutions of aerospace major international, and build a strategic relationship,” he said.
Even the rulers of the UAE describe what they try to do it as “an epic challenges”. Assuming everything goes according to plan, they will do the landing of manned aircraft as the last step to Mars – in the next 100 years.
It will probably never happen. But at least the country will be creating a generation of new scientists in the Gulf – and learn how to grow more fruits and vegetables in the desert.
The need for digital IT is needed in daily activities, Bead IT Consultant is the right choice as your partner, visit our website by clicking this link: www.beadgroup.com.