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Japan launches ambitious robotic mission to Martian moon Phobos
Japan launched an ambitious $350 million mission to Mars on Monday to study the red planet's two moons in unprecedented detail, dropping a small rover on the largest — Phobos — before the mothership touches down to robotically collect…
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Japan launched a $350 million Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission on Monday, sending a small rover to land on Phobos, the larger of Mars’s two moons, before the orbiting mothership later collects soil samples for return to Earth. The mission will also study Deimos, the smaller moon, to assess whether the moons formed from a massive early‑solar‑system impact or were captured asteroids. Determining their origin is the primary scientific objective of the effort.
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