# LIVE: Japan’s Mars Moons mission set to collect a piece of Phobos

https://mins.news/en/video/106784

- BBC News, 2026-10-19 19:28 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDDXvLk3WFs

> A space mission scheduled to launch on Monday aims to collect a sample from Phobos, a moon of Mars, and bring it back to Earth. If successful, it would be the first sample from Mars or one of its moons to be analysed in laboratories on Earth.

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