NASA to Help Unlock Mysteries of Mars’ Moons in Upcoming Mission

October 15, 2026 · 7:40 pm 2 sources

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• NASA to Help Unlock Mysteries of Mars’ Moons in Upcoming Mission
  NASA · October 15, 2026 19:58
  NASA is playing an important role in JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission, to advance our understanding of Mars’ moons and build on the agency’s long history of exploring the Red Planet. The mission aims to characterize and determine the origin of…

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• How did Mars get its moons? Japan's MMX space mission aims to solve the puzzle
  Phys.org · October 15, 2026 19:40
  The Earth got its moon when a small planet collided with our planet more than 4 billion years ago. This impact hurled molten rock into space, which eventually coalesced to form the satellite we can see every night from across our planet.