Japan Launches MMX Mission to Retrieve Samples From Martian Moon Phobos
Japan has launched its $578 million Martian Moons eXploration mission, embarking on an ambitious five-year voyage to land on Mars’s largest moon, Phobos, and return pristine surface samples back to Earth. The robotic MMX probe lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center aboard a 207-foot H3 rocket, marking the debut of an upgraded configuration featuring
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