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February 15, 2021 The month of the robotic invasion of Mars is upon us. Seven months ago, the United States, China, and the United Arab Emirates launched missions on a 300 million mile (480 million kilometer) journey to Mars. Last week, two of the three missions quietly arrived and inserted themselves into Mars orbit. The final spacecraft to arrive, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission, however, will not go gently into the Martian atmosphere. On Thursday, February 18, NASA’s latest Mars m...

SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service U.A.E. Proclaims Its ‘Hope’ Mars Mission Is a ‘Collaborative Project for the Entire Human Race’ Feb. 10 , 2021 (EIRNS)—The homepage of the United Arab Emirates’ Space Agency’s website succinctly answers the question, “Why Are We Exploring Mars?”: “The red planet has captured human imagination for centuries. Now, we are at a junction where we know a great deal about the planet, and we have the vision and technology to explore further. Mars...

Updated on February 10, 2021 at 12:46 am NBC Universal, Inc. Humankind on Tuesday took one giant step towards colonizing Mars. A spacecraft made in the United Arab Emirates, with help from the University of California, Berkeley, successfully arrived at the red planet. Cheers went up from the space center in Dubai as Amal, a spacecraft named for the Arabic word for hope, successfully reached orbit around Mars. "You can think of it in some ways as the first Martian weather satellite," Rob Lillis ...