The U.S. agency will provide 2 instruments on Japan's Martian Moons Exploration mission to collect samples of the Mars moon Phobos.
Japan's Martian Moons Exploration probe lands on Phobos, the largest moon of Mars, with the Red Planet in the background in an artist rendering.The U.S. space agency on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding with the to join Japan's Martian Moon Exploration mission to collect samples of the Martian moon Phobos and return them to Earth.
The agreement, which NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy signed with JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa here at the 38th Space Symposium, calls forto provide two experiments on the MMX mission when the spacecraft launches to the Red Planet in 2024. "We've got great partners at JAXA and they are leading this ambitious mission, bringing back the first samples of the Martian moon Phobos," NASA administrator Bill Nelson"We've had a long history in space together and in this golden age of exploration, the United States and Japan are certainly going to continue to work together.
Under the memorandum of understanding, NASA will provide an experiment called the Mars-moon Exploration with Gamma rays and Neutrons and a Pneumatic Sampler for the
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