UAE Growing Strawberries and Date Palms on Mars to Seed Colonization





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The UAE won't just land on Mars by 2021—it's going to turn the Red Planet green.The United Arab Emirates has Mars on its mind , and among its Martian goals includes growing crops up on the Red Planet.

Hope Probe." It plans to launch a spacecraft in 2020 and land on Mars the following year.



Space The UAE Agency has declared it's "working on sending the first Arab and Islamic probe to Mars," a mission titled "." It plans to launch a spacecraft in 2020 and land on Mars the following year.





The UAE is reportedly looking to grow date palms, strawberries, lettuce and tomatoes; Al Zaabi says that those fruits and vegetables gel with established scientific theory as potential Mars growers, while the date palm has symbolic resonance.



The BBC reports that Rashid Al Zaabi , a senior strategic planner at the UAE Space Agency, has expressed that among the UAE's plans for Mars is the hope of introducing agriculture. "There are similarities between Mars and the desert," said Al Zaabi to the BCC, "The landscape of the UAE, the soil, are similar…when we get there, we'll have to eat."The UAE is reportedly looking to grow date palms, strawberries, lettuce and tomatoes; Al Zaabi says that those fruits and vegetables gel with established scientific theory as potential Mars growers, while the date palm has symbolic resonance.





Its atmosphere has been decimated, any water on the planet is locked up in ice at the poles, and the daily temps swing over a range of 170-degrees Fahrenheit. However, the Emirates is not the only country that sees that Mars could be somewhat more inhabitable one day—in fact,



The Emirates joins Russia, China, the U.S. and a group of European nations shooting to colonize Mars, and all of which face the same harsh reality—that life on Mars is, well, harsh.Its atmosphere has been decimated, any water on the planet is locked up in ice at the poles, and the daily temps swing over a range of 170-degrees Fahrenheit. However, the Emirates is not the only country that sees that Mars could be somewhat more inhabitable one day—in fact, an American scientist recently proposed that a device could be placed in space to help deflect some of the nasty solar winds that are currently keeping Mars a wasteland.