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Japan Launches MMX Spacecraft to Mars Moons Phobos and Deimos for Historic Sample Return

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Japan Launches MMX Spacecraft to Mars Moons Phobos and Deimos for Historic Sample Return

Here is what the page “Japan Launches MMX Spacecraft to Mars Moons Phobos and Deimos for Historic Sample Return” contains. Japan's space agency JAXA launched the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission on Tuesday, sending a spacecraft on a six-year journey to study the mysterious moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, and bring back samples from Phobos. The H3 rocket lifted off from Tanegashima Space Center, marking a major milestone for Japan's space program and the world's first sample return mission to a Martian moon.

MMX aims to uncover the origins of these moons—whether they are captured asteroids or debris from a giant impact on Mars—and provide clues about planetary formation and the evolution of the solar system. The mission also carries a rover developed by Germany and France, and a NASA instrument to study the moons' composition. For the complete material, the listing points back to the source inside the network.

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