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 of alien gravel. Cute. Back here, my street can’t hold ten grams of asphalt together, the DMV line has its own time zone, and potholes qualify as wetlands. We’ll spend a fortune fetching dust from a moon while basic infrastructure crumbles into stand-up comedy. The cosmic punchline: Martian dirt gets a return ticket; my bus doesn’t.