The U.S. space agency is supplying two instruments for a Japanese spacecraft tasked with collecting samples from Phobos.
For its part, NASA will pack its Mars-moon Exploration with Gamma rays and Neutrons spectrograph instrument, and the Pneumatic Sampler technology demonstration on board the MMX mission. The space agency has also called on ten researchers to join the MMX mission team as NASA scientists, observing the moons with the spacecraft in orbit and analyzing the Phobos samples once they are returned to Earth.
Participating institutions include Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, California State University-San Bernardino, Northern Arizona University-Flagstaff, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, among others.whether they are in fact captured asteroids in the Mars system or fragments that coalesced together following a huge impact on the Red Planet.
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