{"id":245523,"date":"2026-10-17T01:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/nasa-to-help-unlock-mysteries-of-mars-moons-in-upcoming-mission"},"modified":"2026-10-17T01:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:04:43","slug":"nasa-to-help-unlock-mysteries-of-mars-moons-in-upcoming-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/nasa-to-help-unlock-mysteries-of-mars-moons-in-upcoming-mission","title":{"rendered":"NASA to Help Unlock Mysteries of Mars\u2019 Moons in Upcoming Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-to-help-unlock-mysteries-of-mars-moons-in-upcoming-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is playing an important role in JAXA\u2019s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission, to advance our understanding of Mars\u2019 moons and build on the agency\u2019s long history of exploring the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>The mission aims to characterize and determine the origin of Mars\u2019 moons Phobos and Deimos and deliver a sample of Phobos to Earth. The MMX spacecraft is targeting launch from JAXA\u2019s Tanegashima Space Center in Japan at 3:41 p.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 19 (4:41 a.m. JST on Tuesday, Oct. 20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is playing an important role in JAXA\u2019s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission, to advance our understanding of Mars\u2019 moons and build on the agency\u2019s long history of exploring the Red Planet. The mission aims to characterize and determine the origin of Mars\u2019 moons Phobos and Deimos and deliver a sample [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}