A spacecraft en route to Mercury just caught this fresh new look at Venus0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 16, 2020
New images taken by BepiColombo come at a time when interest in the second planet from the sun is at an all time high.
New images taken by BepiColombo come at a time when interest in the second planet from the sun is at an all time high.
The Japanese agency’s sample return mission will explore the origin of Mars’ curious moons.
Other attempts by the Soviet Union and Russia have failed, but Japan could be the first to land on Mars’ moon, Phobos.
A Japanese spacecraft left a distant asteroid on Wednesday, starting its yearlong journey home after successfully completing its mission to gather soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system, the country’s space agency said.
Hayabusa-2 will hover above its target and release four landing probes before touching down to collect samples to return to Earth.
On the 18th of January the Japanese Space agency Jaxa launched it’s Epsilon 3 rocket to put a commercial planetary observational satellite into earth’s atmosphere.
While many other space missions are interested in Mars, The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is planning to investigate Phobos and Deimos.