NASA Collaborates with Japan to Collect Samples from Mars Moon Phobos.
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NASA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to join Japan's Martian Moon Exploration (MMX) mission to collect samples of the Martian moon Phobos and return them to Earth. NASA will provide two experiments on the MMX mission when the spacecraft launches to the Red Planet in 2024. JAXA's MMX mission is currently scheduled to launch toward Mars in 2024 and enter orbit around the planet in 2025. It will visit both moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, but only land on Phobos, the bigger of the two Martian satellites.
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