JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission

 (science.org)

30 points | by Muhammad523 2 days ago

3 comments

  • TGower 50 minutes ago
    JAXA does great work, they also publish the highest resolution open access global surface elevation model. Really impressive for a country with about 1/10th the GDP of the US.
  • dvh 1 hour ago
    I hope they make some photos of Phobos monolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith
  • hbarka 30 minutes ago
    I wonder how this mission compares in scale to the JAXA Hayabusa comet interceptor done twenty years ago.