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Mike Wehner
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With groups like NASA and the European Space Agency focusing largely on missions to explore Earth's moon and Mars, the Japanese space agency JAXA is taking a chance on a different kind of mission. According to reports out of Japan, JAXA is currently planning on a trip to two Martian moons, and they're evening planning on snatching a sample from the Martian moon Phobos and sending it back to Earth.
As Ars Technica reports, the mission will cost around $417 million and has a tentative launch window of 2024. If successful, it will be the very first time that humans have ever fetched a sample of a moon orbiting another planet.
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