FEBRUARY 10, 2021|TRAVEL & TOURISM
How To Get a Limited Edition “Martian” Passport Stamp
If you are like me and desperately missing international travel, this story won’t help.
To commemorate the UAE Mars Mission reaching orbit, the United Arab Emirates released a new passport stamp that uses special “Martian ink” made from volcanic basalt rocks that lend Mars its recognizable rusty color and are also easily found in the UAE.
Countries have used postage stamps for years in this way to celebrate national victories, but this idea to use the immigration stamp people get when arriving in the country as a collectible experience was a new and non-obvious idea worth sharing.
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