Japan’s MMX spacecraft is set to launch on a mission to collect about 10 grams of dust from one of Mars’s moons and bring it back to Earth, offering a rare chance to study material from the Martian system.
Japan’s MMX spacecraft is set to launch on a mission to collect about 10 grams of dust from one of Mars’s moons and bring it back to Earth, offering a rare chance to study material from the Martian system.
Ten grams for about $300 million means we’re paying $30 million a gram to scrape a moon—and somehow that’s the sane part.