Japan to launch world-first mission to collect samples from Martian moon

Japanese space agency leads five-year mission to Phobos, one of ‘most important unclimbed mountains in the solar system’Japan is to launch a spacecraft on the world’s first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons orbiting Mars.Scientists hope the mission, which is expecte…

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