In the desert of Dubai will open an astronomical resort

Dubai is exploring opportunities for astronomical tourism with the opening of an observatory and themed resort.

Al Thuraya Astronomy Center Observatory will open on September 15 in Dubai, valued at 50 million dirhams ($ 13.6 million), and next year it is planned to create an astronomical resort in the Marmun Desert. Thus, the city is going to form new tourist routes.

The grand opening of the astronomical center will take place on UAE National Day, December 2.

The observatory will be equipped with a telescope with a mirror diameter of 1 meter. It will be equipped with an academy with classrooms and laboratories, an external observation deck, a cinema with 100 seats, a shop, a cafe and a library. The building area of ​​2696 square meters. m located in the park Al Mushrif. It will be decorated with landscaped gardens in the shape of constellations. The construction of the center began in 2015.

Currently, the Dubai Astronomy Group has 7,000 members and is in the process of hiring 40 new employees for the new center. The center will inform the public about the Mars-2117 project, a plan for building a city on Mars in a hundred years.

Hassan Al Hariri, director of the center and executive director of the Dubai Astronomy Group, said: “Our Sheikh Mohammed instructed us to execute the Mars 2117 plan, to build a city on Mars, so we want to pave the way for this. Our Sheikh Mohammed is a very far-sighted person, and when he says something like this, it means that we must develop, we must come up with something that goes beyond the ordinary. We must go to Mars. ”

Mr. Al-Hariri leaves a place for the Martian camp at the observatory.

“We want to give people a chance to live on Mars. They will have no atmosphere, they will have no food, they will have no soil. They will have to cook everything for themselves, ”he said.

Marmoun Astronomy Resort will be located 40 km from the city so that tourists and explorers can observe the starry sky in complete darkness. The municipality has already provided land.

The next project will be an observatory in the Hatta Mountains, the preliminary opening of which is scheduled for 2019.

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