Since its formation on December 2, 1971, The Emirates has led an unprecedented journey of development from the desert to become a global destination, hub for businesses and land of opportunities in less than half a century.
- The Emirates is home to the world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa, the world’s largest man-made island, the Palm Jumeirah, and the world’s biggest shopping mall, the Dubai Mall.
- The Louvre Abu Dhabi is one of the latest marvels to open in the capital in 2017, in a cultural collaboration with the French government to bring art from across the world.
- The Emirates has created the world’s first ministry of possibilities and ministry of artificial intelligence.
- The Emirates has ministers of tolerance, happiness and youth.
- The futuristic country is leading efforts in emerging technologies with Dubai aiming to have 25% of its transport as driverless by 2030.
- Dubai has the world’s longest driverless metro system since 2009.
- Women in The Emirates make up third of the cabinet, half of the parliament and 70% of university graduates.
- Abu Dhabi houses global campuses of the Sorbonne University and New York University in the country where the literacy rate is 93%
- Over 20 million tourists visit The Emirates each year.
- The Mars Hope Probe was built by a team of scientists and engineers whose average age was 27. Women comprised 34% of the team.
Emirates Mars Mission
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The Emirates aims to share its success story of investing in the human capital to demonstrate people’s boundless potential to dream and make their impossible, possible.
Nothing is impossible if you can dream it. Our message is to honor dreams and empower talents to build a brighter future for humanity.
Since its formation on December 2, 1971, The Emirates has led an unprecedented journey of development from the desert to become a global destination, hub for businesses and land of opportunities in less than half a century.
Established on the inspiring principle that “the impossible is possible”, the young nation has gone beyond housing an array of record-breaking landmarks and touristic destinations to becoming a vibrant melting pot and commercial hub that brings together over 190 nationalities in true harmony, equality, coexistence and peace. As a global model for tolerance, the country provides an attractive environment for talents and expertise coming from all over the world to access unlimited opportunities for innovation and growth. Leading with a futuristic vision, the young nation has been making huge strides in technology, transport, renewable energy and science to contribute to global efforts that aim to create a better future for humanity.
With no limits to its ambitions, The Emirates is embarking on a ground-breaking mission to space on July 15, 2020 through an unmanned probe to Mars. When it enters the Red Planet’s orbit in 2021, the Hope Probe will mark the nation’s 50th anniversary with a global message that the sky is not the limit, but the beginning of dreams.
This summer, the Emirates Mars Mission will launch an unmanned probe named ‘hope’ from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on July 15, 2020, scheduled for arrival to the Red Planet’s orbit several months later in 2021 to coincide with the country’s Golden Jubilee.
In the first ever Arab mission to another planet, the Hope Probe will provide the first truly global picture of the Martian atmosphere. It will study the Red Planet’s climate throughout daily and seasonal cycles and explore the connections between current Martian weather and the ancient climate of the Red Planet.
Designed and developed by a young team of 450 scientists and engineers, in collaboration with experts from the United States, the spacecraft will collect more than 1,000 gigabytes of new Mars data to be shared with over 200 research centres across the world for free. The data will give scientists deeper insights into the past and future of our own planet and the potential of life for humans on Mars and on other distant planets.
Travelling a whopping 495 million km to space transcends achieving a scientific goal; it sends a message of hope to future generations across the world that with hope, willpower and determination, nothing is impossible to accomplish.
The Emirates is a story that narrates the power of the human potential and imagination in driving progress, uniting people from all over the world to make their dreams come true in a land that leads with the slogan “the impossible is possible”.