Japan to launch spacecraft on mission to get samples from Martian moon
Members of Exploration and Return Modules, making up the Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft, at the Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane, Kagoshima prefecture, Aug. 13. AFP-Yonhap TOKYO — Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world’s first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons orbiting Mars. Scientists…

