Japan will send a mission to the moons of Mars
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Japan — the world's fourth space power after US, Russia and China. Despite the fact that the land of the rising sun currently specializiruetsya mainly in the launches of orbital satellites, in the near future Japan could make a real breakthrough in the field of aerospace projects. Thus, the Japanese space Agency JAXA has officially announced that its plans is the creation of a new mission to Mars, or rather, one of the two Martian satellites — Phobos. If the ambitious plan of Japanese engineers work, humanity may receive the first ever spacecraft that will be able not only to fly to the Martian system, but also to go back to Earth.
New mission to Mars
Phobos — one of the two Martian satellites, the origin of which is in the scientific community since the official discovery of the moon and is still under fierce debate. In order to shed light on the mystery of the origin of satellites, a Japanese mission called Marsian Moons Exploration mission (MMX) plans to go in his space trip in 2024. If during program execution the machine will not encounter unforeseen difficulties, JAXA expects that the mission will be able to survive on Phobos more than three years. During this time, the device will be able to take samples of the local soil to create a map of the moon's surface, and even specify the reason for the unusual appearance of this small Martian moon, according to the portal .
Japanese mission to Mars will help to better understand the satellites of the planets
For the unique scientific mission, the spacecraft will be fitted with 11 tools that will allow the device to collect 10-gram soil sample and drill 2 cm below the surface of the satellite. The analysis of even such small amounts of material may help scientists understand how it formed both of the Martian moons. Despite the fact that the shape of Phobos and Deimos are very similar to asteroid satellites can be pieces of that as a result of some catastrophe could lose some its part.
In Addition to its primary purpose, the Japanese program will focus on the study of the Martian water resources, the occurrence of which happened during the so-called “phases of the earth's environment”. Once upon a time Mars had a significant amount of liquid water, but the result is still unknown reasons, almost all of the Martian water for a very short time literally evaporates into space, and its remnants went under the surface. Exploring the composition of the two satellites of the planet, scientists hope to better understand the evolution of Mars and reasons that helped transform once warm the world in a completely lifeless desert.
Anyway, the above-mentioned mission from the Japanese company JAXA is not the first proof that the Japanese are actively developing the aerospace industry. So, we already wrote about the fact that last year was able to successfully land on a tiny distant asteroid called Ryugu. After collecting the soil particles of the asteroid, the mission headed for Earth, and is expected to arrive home in December 2020.
Phobos and Deimos — two of the asteroid satellite of the red planet
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