(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM)) A gargantuan mission calls for a superlative vision. The UAE is blessed with a leadership that believes the journey of development will always remain a race for excellence, commented a UAE daily.
"It is such recognition of the need to set high goals and earnest efforts to achieve results that placed the UAE as a shining star in the eyes of the global community," said The Gulf Today in an editorial on Thursday.
So it is that when the entire country erupts in a celebratory mode in 2021 to mark the 50th anniversary of its founding, the orbiter of the Emirates Mars Mission, planned and managed by a 100 percent Emirati team, will simultaneously arrive at Mars.
The Arab mission to Mars probe has pertinently been named "Hope", and the reasons behind the name have been lucidly elucidated by none other than His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, himself.
As he puts it, "This probe represents hope for millions of young Arabs looking for a better future. There is no future, no achievement, no life without hope."
The mission is just not about one country reaping benefits. The probe will create mankind's first integrated model of the Red Planet's atmosphere. The spacecraft will collect and send back to earth over 1,000 gigabytes of new Mars data. This information will be received in the Science Data Centre in the UAE through different ground stations spread around the world.
"These invaluable data will subsequently be catalogued and analysed in the UAE by the Emirates Mars Mission science team, and then shared freely with more than 200 institutions worldwide for the benefit of thousands of space specialists," added the daily.
Also, at a time when the world is worried about climate change, the mission data will help climate scientists understand changes in the earth's atmosphere over millions of years.
One thing that is unmistakably evident in this great endeavour is the commitment of the leadership to promote scientific talent.
The support offered by the administrative machinery to projects like the Mars mission reinforces the belief that the leaders leave no stone unturned when it comes to helping the scientific community pursue dreams and reach for the stars.
The Sharjah-based daily concluded by quoting H.H. Sheikh Mohammed as saying, "The Emirates Mars Mission will be a great contribution to human knowledge, a milestone for Arab civilisation, and a real investment for future generations."
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