Japan launches spacecraft to mysterious moons of Mars in a bold mission to bring home soil samples

A Japanese spacecraft is rocketing toward Mars on an unprecedented quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back ...

Mars’ two tiny moons shouldn’t exist. A new mission has launched to reveal their secrets

A Japanese-led mission has launched to explore Mars’ two mysterious little moons and determine how they formed — and unlock ...

Japan launches mission to return samples from Mars moon

MINAMITANE, Japan, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Japan launched an uncrewed spacecraft toward the Martian moon Phobos on Tuesday on a ...
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Scientists Don’t Know How Mars Acquired Its Two Moons. Japan Just Launched a Historic Space Mission That Will Fetch Samples to Find Out

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's spacecraft is expected to reach the Martian system in August 2027 and return samples ...

Mission to solve Mars moon mysteries

A Japanese-led mission launching on Monday hopes to find the answer to where Mars's two moons - Deimos and Phobos - came from ...

‘Once-in-a-lifetime chance’: Japan launches historic mission to collect rocks from Mars’s moon Phobos

Scientists hope Martian material collected will shed light on the origins of the solar system and life on Earth ...
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The first mission to sample Mars’s moons launches today

For the first time ever, a spacecraft will travel all the way to the Mars system and return. But first, it has to get through the launch ...
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Japan successfully launches probe in historic Mars moon mission

The spacecraft, due to arrive near Mars around August next year, aims to become the first to retrieve samples from one of its ...