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Tokyo (dpa) - A Japanese space probe has successfully set off on its journey to Mars with plans to land the German-French rover Idefix on the Martian moon Phobos in 2029. The uncrewed mission, known as Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) and led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), aims to bring the first samples from Phobos back to Earth in 2031. It launched from the Japanese spaceport on Tanegashima, an island in south-west Japan, aboa......

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