Japan launches spacecraft on mission to explore mysterious moons of Mars

Japan has launched the MMX spacecraft, a mission valued at $578M, to explore the moons of Mars. The primary objective is to collect samples from Phobos, a destination that has remained untouched by previous missions that only orbited or landed on the red planet. The spacecraft is designed to gather these Martian moon materials and return them to Earth by 2031, marking an ambitious step in the exploration of the solar system's mysterious bodies.