{"id":650006,"date":"2026-10-18T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/650006\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:08:08","slug":"japan-to-launch-spacecraft-on-a-mission-to-get-samples-from-a-martian-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/650006\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to launch spacecraft on a mission to get samples from a Martian moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"R7HD5ZUE4ZD23OUEWG7CBBCLKA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">TOKYO \u2014 Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world\u2019s first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons orbiting <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mars-nasa-perseverance-rover-rock-life-4e608d530be598c1a7af959d97eb88d8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mars<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TWYLT332HJAKJI7JMDUK5GAGQU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Scientists hope the mission, which is expected to take five years, will provide clues to how Phobos and its smaller sibling Deimos formed, and hopefully even shed light on the origins of life in the solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO \u2014 Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world\u2019s first mission to bring back samples&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7265,292135,1409,122,85,46,5380,141,2247,30641,24341,126],"class_list":["post-650006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","tag-as-japan-mars-moons","tag-astronomy","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-planets","tag-science","tag-space-exploration","tag-space-launches","tag-spacecraft","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}