UAE's Hope (مسبار الأمل) (A Folk Song in Phrygian Dominance) by Ben Corbin published on 2021-10-07T19:17:42Z The United Arab Emirates has a begun to build its space program and has already launched a successful mission to Mars. LYRICS: From the sands where the Bedouin and Muslim nomads roamed A national initiative where engineers and science found a home In a land where the desert sky allows one to navigate by stars The first interplanetary mission from this country went to Mars UAE has a mission to the Red Planet And that Martian probe is called the Hope! The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center was where the plans were laid The science lead Sarah Al Amiri was the one who led the way A humble but ambitious way to lead a nation’s critical campaign A reminder to the Arab world that they can lead in science once again UAE has a mission to the Red Planet Emirates doing science ‘round the Red Planet And that probe will give the region Hope! So it launched in July 2020 from Japan (Lucky the pandemic didn’t cause a launch delay) Filling gaps in our understanding of the Martian climate is the plan (Building off the work that MAVEN still sends back today) The myst’ries of this planet’s water hist’ry won’t be hidden very far (Orbiting much higher than the ones that came before) Someday Arabs will be roaming on this crimson desert planet ‘neath the stars (And that Martian probe is called the...) UAE has a mission to the Red Planet Emirates doing science ‘round the Red Planet Studying the evolution of the Red Planet And it gives humanity some Hope! Genre World