On March 27, 1989, the Soviet Union's Phobos 2 mission to Mars' moons ended in failure. But the whole mission was definitely not a failure. Phobos 2 arrived in Mars orbit two months earlier and had ...

Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is sending a mission to travel to Mars which will survey the Red Planet’s two moons, Phobos and Deimos. The spacecraft will explore both moons and collect a sample of ...

Update: The launch date of this mission has been moved to 2026. A piece of Mars’s biggest moon is coming back to Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is sending a spacecraft to Phobos ...

Phobos, the tiny innermost moon of Mars, is to come under unprecedented scrutiny after Europe’s mission to Mars goes into orbit around the Red Planet late in 2003. Mars Express is due to pass within ...

The U.S. agency will provide 2 instruments on Japan's Martian Moons Exploration mission to collect samples of the Mars moon Phobos. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This is a full-scale mockup of Russia's Phobos-Grunt. The spacecraft will collect samples of soil on Mar's moon Phobos and to bring the samples back to Earth for detailed study. This image shows ...

The University of Chicago's Nicolas Dauphas was one of three scientists selected by NASA to receive extraterrestrial samples from the Martian Moons eXploration mission. The mission, led by the Japan ...

"Detailing the surface of Phobos is also important because it's possible that the first human missions to Mars will land there rather than on the surface of Mars. With its much smaller gravity well, ...

Japan and Germany have a history of collaboration in scientific and technological endeavors. The countries have a Joint Committee on Cooperation in Science Technology that has met many times over the ...

They could plan to do two passes. One pass to remove 95% to 99% of the energy you need to shed, or whatever accuracy range is believed achievable, then a second pass to remove the rest. Or three ...