# LIVE: Japan to launch world's first mission to collect samples from a Martian moon

https://mins.news/en/video/106293

- The Associated Press, 2026-10-19 13:20 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyWdl95Tf-4

> Japan is preparing to launch a spacecraft Tuesday morning local time on the first mission to retrieve samples from Phobos, a moon of Mars.

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