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In 2029 Japan set sights on bringing Soil from Mars Moon

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Last updated: August 20, 2021 10:39 am
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Call it a very ambitious plan, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has set on an ambitious plan to bring soil samples back from Mars Moon much before the US and Chinese missions now operating on Mars accomplish the same. This will up the hopes of finding clues to the planet’s origin and traces of possible life.

JAXA, plans to launch an explorer in 2024 to land on the Martian moon Phobos to collect 10 grams (0.35 ounce) of soil and bring it back to Earth in 2029.

The rapid return trip would put Japan ahead of the United States and China in bringing back samples from the Martian region despite starting later, project manager Yasuhiro Kawakatsu said in an online news conference Thursday.

The MMX team conducted a drop tower test at @uematsudenki zero-gravity experiment tower. Repeating these tests under varying conditions help us ensure that samples can be safely collected when we touchdown on the Martian moon, Phobos! https://t.co/EI3xwqyDnu

— Martian Moons @JAXA (@mmx_jaxa_en) August 5, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance rover is operating in a Mars crater where it is to collect 31 samples that are to be returned to Earth with help from the European Space Agency as early as 2031.

MARS MOON: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, plans to launch an explorer in 2024 to land on the Mars to collect 10 grams (0.35 ounce) of soil and bring it back to Earth in 2029.

China landed a spacecraft on Mars in May and plans to bring back samples around 2030.

JAXA scientists believe about 0.1 per cent of the surface soil on Phobos came from Mars, and 10 grams could contain about 30 granules, depending on the consistency of the soil, Kawakatsu said.

Tomohiro Usui, professor at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, said soil on Phobos is likely to be a mixture of material from the moon itself and material from Mars that was spread by sandstorms.

Collecting samples from multiple locations on Phobos could provide a greater chance of obtaining possible traces of life from Mars than obtaining soil from a single location on Mars, he said.

Any life forms that might have come from Mars will have died because of harsh solar and cosmic radiation on Phobos, JAXA scientists said.

The NASA and the European Space Agency missions focus on potential life forms and evolution of the area of the Jezero crater, believed to be an ancient lake.

By studying Phobos soil samples including material from Mars, scientists hope to learn about the evolution of the Martian biosphere, Usui said.

He said Japanese research on Phobos and NASA’s samples from specific locations in the Martian crater can complement each other and could lead to answers to questions such as how Martian life, if present, emerged and evolved in time and place.

Last December, a JAXA probe, Hayabusa2, brought back more than 5 grams (0.19 ounce) of soil from the asteroid Ryugu, more than 300 million kilometers (190 million miles) from Earth, in the world’s first successful return of an asteroid sample.

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