Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moon

September 3, 2026 · 8:40 pm 2 sources

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• Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moon
  WIRED · September 4, 2026 12:00
  The mission to Phobos, Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor.

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• Perseverance rover watches Earth vanish behind Martian moon
  Phys.org · September 3, 2026 20:40
  Earth and the Martian moon Phobos dance together in a series of images recently acquired by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Earth appears as a point of light in the Martian sky, disappearing behind the crescent of Phobos, the larger of Mars' two moons.