Follow-on Mascot Rover To Join Japan's Phobos Mission

BREMEN, Germany—Following a successful 17-hr. mission of the Mascot rover on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, France and Germany have agreed to send a follow-on spacecraft to Phobos, a Martian moon that is the target of Japan’s planned MMX sample return mission. Mascot, short for Mobile Asteroid...

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