Martian Moons eXploration launching today to land on Phobos and return samples (nextspaceflight.com) 3 points by ck2 9d ago ↗ HN
[–] aw-engineer 9d ago ↗ Buzz Aldrin was excited for a closer examination of Phobos and its 279ft x 300ft monolithic feature- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDIXvpjnRws - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith
[–] ck2 9d ago ↗ is the ability to more easily return samples from Phobos vs Mars because it's a moon with much less gravity?that seems logical, clever actually they are doing that alternativebut Mars and its moon likely very different composition? [–] gus_massa 7d ago ↗ > but Mars and its moon likely very different composition?I guess it's related to the origin of them. I had too look the details, it's controversial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Mars
[–] gus_massa 7d ago ↗ > but Mars and its moon likely very different composition?I guess it's related to the origin of them. I had too look the details, it's controversial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Mars
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 4.9 ms ] thread- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDIXvpjnRws - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith
that seems logical, clever actually they are doing that alternative
but Mars and its moon likely very different composition?
I guess it's related to the origin of them. I had too look the details, it's controversial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Mars