Japan Launches Spacecraft to Mysterious Moons of Mars in a Bold Mission to Bring Home Soil Samples – WTOP News
- On Tuesday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched its flagship H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center carrying the Martian Moons Exploration probe, starting a five-year mission to retrieve samples from Phobos.
- The $US578 million, 5-ton spacecraft aims to retrieve material that could reveal the solar system's origins, an unprecedented challenge as no agency has ever successfully landed on or fetched samples from the Martian moons.
- JAXA will deploy a French-German rover named Idefix to the 22-kilometer-wide Phobos. The rover serves as a "scout for safety," French Space Agency official Julien Baroukh said, prowling the surface for 100 days.
- Flight controllers plan to land the four-legged mothership on Phobos in late 2028 or 2029 to drill and vacuum up at least 10 grams of material before launching back to Earth.
- After studying the twin moon Deimos, the probe will return to the Australian desert in 2031. NASA astrophysicist Tom Statler said, "There's a lot of adrenaline," underscoring the mission's complexity and scientific stakes.
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rmf24.plThis article was first published through Cedarnews.net. To follow up on more news and exclusive reports, visit us on our website. W poniedziaăek wiiczorem polskiego czasu japońska agencja JAXA wystrzeliăa z centrum kosmicznego Tanegashima rakieet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…
This mission seeks to be the first round trip to and from this area of Mars orbit.
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ORF.at NewsWith us on board: the German-French Rover Idefix. For the first time, samples from the Mars system will also come back to Earth. What makes this mission so difficult – and so exciting.
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has launched the historic MMX mission (Martian Moons eXploration) with the aim of thoroughly studying the environment of Mars and landing at Fobos, the largest moon on the red planet. During this ambitious international project, the unmanned probe will collect key data on the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos and bring to Earth the first samples of the surface of Phobos. Experts are confident that t…
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