Leading specialists in breeding and agrarian farming of the United Arab Emirates are currently working on an amazing project.

We are talking about plants that can be an excellent tool for the colonizers of the planet Mars.

In the process of their work, scientists intend to send the seed material of date palms into space. For the entire period the seeds are in space, they will be monitored by highly qualified experts from the UAE.

The main task of observers is to find out whether date palms are capable of developing in an atypical, extreme environment.

It is known that the honorable mission of delivering seeds into space will fall on the shoulders of the next participants in the flight on the Falcon 9 aircraft, developed by Ilon Mask, which is launched into open space from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA).

Noteworthy. that palm seeds will be delivered to the Florida from the UAE via regular postal service.

As soon as the date palm seeds return from space to Earth, scientists will try to germinate them. This will help researchers understand whether the plant is capable of vegetation after exposure to zero gravity. If the experiment is successful, work with date palm seeds will continue as part of the work on the Science City on Mars program.