{"id":24893,"date":"2020-07-14T07:28:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T07:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=24893"},"modified":"2020-07-14T07:28:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T07:28:17","slug":"uae-to-become-first-arab-nation-to-launch-of-mars-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/uae-to-become-first-arab-nation-to-launch-of-mars-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE to become first Arab nation to launch of Mars probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The United Arab Emirates plans to make history with the scheduled launch of the “Hope” mission, which will make it the first Arab nation to send a probe to Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A rocket carrying the unmanned spacecraft is due to take off from Japan’s remote Tanegashima Space Center at 5:51 am local time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Emirati project is one of three racing to Mars, including Tianwen-1 from China and Mars 2020 from the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The probe is expected to detach from the launch rocket about an hour after blast-off, which is when the UAE Mars mission’s deputy project manager Sarah al-Amiri said the real excitement will begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UAE which is better known for its skyscrapers, palm-shaped islands and mega attractions has in recent years been pushing to expand its space sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UAE also wants the project to serve as a source of inspiration for Arab youth, in a region too often wracked by sectarian conflicts and economic crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dubai has hired architects to imagine what a Martian city might look like and recreate it in its desert as “Science City”, at a cost of around 500 million dirhams (135 million dollars).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Arab Emirates plans to make history with the scheduled launch of the “Hope” mission, which will make it the first Arab nation to send a probe to Mars. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A rocket carrying the unmanned spacecraft is due to take off from Japan’s remote Tanegashima Space Center at 5:51 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":24894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[58,868],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-24893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2020","tag-international-current-affairs","tag-space-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24895,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24893\/revisions\/24895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24893"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=24893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}