Japanese Spacecraft Aims to Bring Back a Bit of a Martian Moon

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA Japanese spacecraft is set to launch toward Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars, on an H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIf it works, it brings back the first samples from the Martian system.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe plan is to collect at least ten grams of material and return it to Earth in twenty thirty-one.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNASA's program executive says the samples could show whether Phobos is an asteroid or debris from a collision.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTen grams. That's a sugar packet, and it takes five years to get home.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe rover riding along weighs fifty-five pounds here and will weigh less than a few dozen paperclips on Phobos.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have carried heavier luggage through customs in places I was asked to leave.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA rover that light could get lost in a junk drawer.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorRex has the scores, Kenji, and he will want us to know he has a rover's worth of opinions on them.