‘Once-in-a-lifetime chance’: Japan launches historic mission to collect rocks from Mars’s moon Phobos

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• Japan launched the MMX spacecraft on an H3 rocket from Tanegashima island to collect samples from Mars's moon Phobos.
• The probe is expected to reach Mars's orbit in August next year and return to Earth in 2031 with at least 10g of soil and rock.