Sunday, October 25, 2026

Sky & Space

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Color view of Phobos, a potato-shaped, heavily cratered moon, with the large crater Stickney at lower right against black space.

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona (public domain)

MMX Launch: Japan’s Spacecraft Heads to Mars’s Moon Phobos

JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft left Earth on an H3 rocket on Oct. 19 UTC. It aims to orbit Phobos, collect a sample and return it to Earth in 2031.