{"id":19112,"date":"2020-06-09T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/09\/it-is-about-our-survival-uaes-mars-mission-prepares-for-launch"},"modified":"2020-06-09T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T04:00:38","slug":"it-is-about-our-survival-uaes-mars-mission-prepares-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19112","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It is about our survival&#8217;: UAE&#8217;s Mars mission prepares for launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arab world\u2019s first interplanetary mission will see probe orbit planet for a Martian year to study its climate<\/p>\n<p>The Arab world\u2019s first interplanetary mission, due to launch in 40 days\u2019 time and reach&nbsp;the orbit of&nbsp;Mars&nbsp;in February&nbsp;next year, is about the survival and future of the entire Middle East, the&nbsp;leaders of the United Arab Emirates project&nbsp;have declared.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mission&nbsp;is&nbsp;also&nbsp;the latest sign that the old cartel of space exploration, once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/05\/space-race-moon-mars-asteroids-commercial-launches\">confined to the superpowers<\/a>, is being&nbsp;broken up by new&nbsp;national entrants&nbsp;or private sector&nbsp;firms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/09\/it-is-about-our-survival-uaes-mars-mission-prepares-for-launch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arab world\u2019s first interplanetary mission will see probe orbit planet for a Martian year to study its climateThe Arab world\u2019s first interplanetary mission, due to launch in 40 days\u2019 time and reach&nbsp;the orbit of&nbsp;Mars&nbsp;in February&nbsp;next &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[301,88,1446,212,299,297,1039,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-japan","category-mars","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-science","category-space","category-united-arab-emirates","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19140,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19112\/revisions\/19140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}