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Japan set to launch space mission to Martian moon

PerthNow · 18 October 2026 at 6:39 pm

Japan set to launch space mission to Martian moon

Japan is launching a spacecraft on a groundbreaking mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of Mars' moons

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