E289 - UAE's 7-Asteroid Mission, The Heart-Shaped Nebula & Microbes Engineered for Mars

This week on Kalam Astro, host Alya Al-Nuaimi brings you three extraordinary stories — including a UAE space mission that's truly out of this world!

We kick off with one of the most ambitious missions the UAE has ever attempted: the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt. Launching in 2028, the UAE is building a spacecraft that will travel across the solar system and visit not one, not two — but SEVEN asteroids over eight years! One of its targets is 269 Justitia, a 50-kilometre-wide space rock that is a shocking, brilliant crimson red. Scientists believe it originally formed in the far...