https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/a-japanese-spacecraft-aims-to-bring-back-a-bit-of-a-martian-moonContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/a-japanese-spacecraft-aims-to-bring-back-a-bit-of-a-martian-moonhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/a-japanese-spacecraft-aims-to-bring-back-a-bit-of-a-martian-moon#u146410Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:56:37 +0000Japan launched the five-hundred-seventy-eight-million-dollar Martian Moons Exploration spacecraft toward Mars to gather soil and rock samples from the moon Phobos. Five of the world's space agencies joined forces for the five-year mission, which attempts to land a robotic prospector and a rover on the larger of the two Martian moons. The spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth by twenty-thirty-one with the first-ever samples from the Martian system. Scientists hope the mission will reveal secrets about the origins of the solar system and how life began on Earth.Why it mattersMars featu