TY - JOUR
T1 - Martian moons exploration MMX
T2 - sample return mission to Phobos elucidating formation processes of habitable planets
AU - Kuramoto, Kiyoshi
AU - Kawakatsu, Yasuhiro
AU - Fujimoto, Masaki
AU - Araya, Akito
AU - Barucci, Maria Antonietta
AU - Genda, Hidenori
AU - Hirata, Naru
AU - Ikeda, Hitoshi
AU - Imamura, Takeshi
AU - Helbert, Jörn
AU - Kameda, Shingo
AU - Kobayashi, Masanori
AU - Kusano, Hiroki
AU - Lawrence, David J.
AU - Matsumoto, Koji
AU - Michel, Patrick
AU - Miyamoto, Hideaki
AU - Morota, Tomokatsu
AU - Nakagawa, Hiromu
AU - Nakamura, Tomoki
AU - Ogawa, Kazunori
AU - Otake, Hisashi
AU - Ozaki, Masanobu
AU - Russell, Sara
AU - Sasaki, Sho
AU - Sawada, Hirotaka
AU - Senshu, Hiroki
AU - Tachibana, Shogo
AU - Terada, Naoki
AU - Ulamec, Stephan
AU - Usui, Tomohiro
AU - Wada, Koji
AU - Watanabe, Sei ichiro
AU - Yokota, Shoichiro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Martian moons exploration, MMX, is the new sample return mission planned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) targeting the two Martian moons with the scheduled launch in 2024 and return to the Earth in 2029. The major scientific objectives of this mission are to determine the origin of Phobos and Deimos, to elucidate the early Solar System evolution in terms of volatile delivery across the snow line to the terrestrial planets having habitable surface environments, and to explore the evolutionary processes of both moons and Mars surface environment. To achieve these objectives, during a stay in circum-Martian space over about 3 years MMX will collect samples from Phobos along with close-up observations of this inner moon and carry out multiple flybys of Deimos to make comparative observations of this outer moon. Simultaneously, successive observations of the Martian atmosphere will also be made by utilizing the advantage of quasi-equatorial spacecraft orbits along the moons’ orbits. Graphical Abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
AB - Martian moons exploration, MMX, is the new sample return mission planned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) targeting the two Martian moons with the scheduled launch in 2024 and return to the Earth in 2029. The major scientific objectives of this mission are to determine the origin of Phobos and Deimos, to elucidate the early Solar System evolution in terms of volatile delivery across the snow line to the terrestrial planets having habitable surface environments, and to explore the evolutionary processes of both moons and Mars surface environment. To achieve these objectives, during a stay in circum-Martian space over about 3 years MMX will collect samples from Phobos along with close-up observations of this inner moon and carry out multiple flybys of Deimos to make comparative observations of this outer moon. Simultaneously, successive observations of the Martian atmosphere will also be made by utilizing the advantage of quasi-equatorial spacecraft orbits along the moons’ orbits. Graphical Abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
KW - Deimos
KW - Early Solar System
KW - Habitable planet
KW - Mars
KW - Phobos
KW - Sample return mission
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U2 - 10.1186/s40623-021-01545-7
DO - 10.1186/s40623-021-01545-7
M3 - Letter
AN - SCOPUS:85120825141
SN - 1343-8832
VL - 74
JO - Earth, Planets and Space
JF - Earth, Planets and Space
IS - 1
M1 - 12
ER -