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Japan successfully launches spacecraft on 5-year mission to collect samples from Martian moon | South China Morning Post

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The historic round-trip mission aims to learn more about the formation of Phobos, one of two moons orbiting Mars, as well as origins of the solar system and life on Earth.

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