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We're officially going to Phobos and Deimos!

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We're officially going to Phobos and Deimos!

Thought this might interest fellow Expanse fans. Japan’s MMX mission will study Phobos and Deimos and bring samples from Phobos back to Earth to help explain how Mars’s moons formed.

Germany and France have built a 25 kg rover called Idefix, expected to land on Phobos in 2029. It will explore the surface in extremely low gravity and help prepare for the main spacecraft’s sample collection. The samples are due back on Earth in 2031.

"Full article from DLR" (https://www.dlr.de/en/research-and-transfer/projects-and-missions/mmx)

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