Japan's mission to Mars moons launches
Japan has launched the Martian Moons eXploration mission, a five-year, half-billion-dollar unmanned spacecraft journey to study Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission aims to become the first to return samples from the Martian system, with a spacecraft scheduled to land, collect dust, rock and soil samples, and deploy a rover on Phobos before returning to Earth. A capsule containing the samples is expected to land in Woomera, South Australia, in 2031.
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