
Aug 16, 2026
✦phys.org
Japan aims for the moons of Mars
Japanese scientists are readying the Martian Moons eXploration mission to retrieve samples from Phobos. Set to blast off from Tanegashima Space Center, the craft will spend three years in orbit. JAXA said the mission will reveal "how a habitable environment for life might have arisen on the terrestrial planets."