The Mars 2117 project aims to transport people to the Red Planet and establish the first mini city
The UAE will build the first city on Mars as part of the 2117 Mars project in collaboration with specialised international organisations and scientific institutes. The Mars 2117 Project was announced by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.
As part of a 100-year national programme, the UAE will set a plan to prepare national cadres that can achieve scientific breakthroughs to facilitate the transport of people to the Red Planet over the next decades. The 100-year plan will involve scientific research programmes to nurture national cadres specialised in space sciences at universities in the UAE. It will also entrench a passion for space in younger generations.
In view of this vision, Merryland International School under the Department of Physics and department of Robotics has put across several challenges to students to come out with projects and themes on
- Space travel and logistics
- City planning in Mars
- Construction, architecture and design
- Habitat design
- Fuel/ Energy sourcing etc.
At Merryland students recognise that UAE is ranked among the most important nine countries in the world that invest in space science, and as one of the first schools established int he country, our goal is to accelerate human researches in this field.
The new project is a seed that we are planting today, and we expect the coming generations to reap its fruits. Merryland had already in the beginning of 2016 academic year, introduced the one and only Carl Sagan Space Walk in the UAE and has its own planetarium where early steps are taken into space research and sciences.
