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Mission blasts off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon
A spacecraft has launched from Japan headed for Mars' moon Phobos, where it will attempt to grab some moondust and bring it back to Earth.
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People
- Markus Grebenstein.Scientists
- Chrysa Avdellidou
- Sara Russell."It
- Sara Russell
- Tom Statler
Organisations
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Natural History Museum
- Japanese Space Agency
- Germany Space Agency
- Leicester University
- Jaxa
Places
- Japan3
- Earth.The2
- Earth2
- Mars2
- Tanegashima Space Centre
- South Australia.The
- Tanegashima island
- Woomera desert
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- mission3
- phobos3
- moon3
- piece2
- grab2
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- off2
- lifetime
- collect
- blasts
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‘Once-in-a-lifetime chance’: Japan launches historic mission to collect rocks from Mars’s moon PhobosHiru News - English