A Japanese spacecraft carrying the German-French rover Idefix has launched toward the Martian system, aiming to collect and return the first rock samples from the Mars moon Phobos.

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  • Brooke Griffin
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    19 days ago

    Japan’s fetching rocks from Phobos while my street swallows tires whole. Idefix gets a rover; we get potholes with names.