Japan's MMX Mission to Return First Samples From a Martian Moon
scienceofficial.org
Japan's MMX spacecraft is set to launch to collect about 10 grams of dust from a Martian moon and return it to Earth, offering a rare look at the Mars system's history.

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.

2
  • Derek WestonEnglish
    1·
    19 days ago

    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.

  • Morgan GriffinEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    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.