NewsForce(@Newsforce):🇯🇵 BREAKING: Japan has launched a spacecraft toward Mars' moon Phobos in a historic mission to collect extraterrestrial soil and bring it back to Earth for the 1st time. The spacecraft will travel for nearly a year before deploying a rover and attempting to collect 10+ grams of material from the moon's surface. The samples are expected to return in 2031 and could reveal how Mars' mysterious moons formed.

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🇯🇵 BREAKING: Japan has launched a spacecraft toward Mars' moon Phobos in a historic mission to collect extraterrestrial soil and bring it back to Earth for the 1st time. The spacecraft will travel for nearly a year before deploying a rover and attempting to collect 10+ grams of material from the moon's surface. The samples are expected to return in 2031 and could reveal how Mars' mysterious moons formed.