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Japan launches mission to bring back samples from Mars’s moon Phobos

Euronews Tuesday 20 October 2026, 09:21 UTC 1 min read
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Japan’s H3 rocket launched the MMX probe on Tuesday, starting a three-year mission to collect samples from Phobos and study the origins of the Solar System. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT I removed ‘Mars’s moon’ to make room, since ‘Phobos’ is already in the text. If you prefer to keep ‘Mars’s moon’, here is a shorter alternative that still fits: Japan’s H3 rocket launched the MMX probe on Tuesday, starting a three-year mission to sample Mars’s moon Phobos and explore the Solar System’s origins.

Japan’s H3 rocket launched the MMX probe on Tuesday, starting a three-year mission to collect samples from Phobos and study the origins of the Solar System. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT I removed ‘Mars’s moon’ to make room, since ‘Phobos’ is already in the text. If you prefer to keep ‘Mars’s moon’, here is a shorter alternative that still fits: Japan’s H3 rocket launched the MMX probe on Tuesday, starting a three-year mission to sample Mars’s moon Phobos and explore the Solar System’s origins.
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