Jak pisał już Adaś Przybyła na wątku o japońskim programie kosmicznym:
http://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=142.135JAXA ogłosiła swoją misję do systemu Marsa, która miałaby wykonać badania dwóch księżyców Marsa: Fobosa i Deimosa oraz przywieźć na Ziemię próbki Fobosa. Z Japonią przy tej misji ma współpracować Francja.
The meeting cemented a collaboration between the two space agencies. CNES will provide an instrument for MMX as well as combining expertise on flight dynamics for the tricky encounter with the Martian moons.
The French instrument will combine a high-resolution infrared camera and spectrometer, a technique that analyses the composition of each image pixel. This will allow the rocks of the Martian moons to be investigated down to a few tenths of a metre.
With a pixel size an order of magnitude smaller than that of similar instruments on missions such as NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA's Mars Express, the spectrometer will also be able to help MMX select the best landing site on Phobos and take the sample.
CNES will also explore the possibility of building a rover to explore the surface of Phobos. A decision will be taken in November this year.
W misji ma brać też udział NASA:
In addition to the collaboration with France, MMX will carry an instrument from NASA. While the CNES spectrometer will examine the type of minerals on the moons, the NASA instrument will pick out individual chemical elements. This is done by analysing the high-energy Gamma rays and neutrons that are produced during the bombardment of cosmic rays from the Sun or more distant sources.
Together, these instruments will reveal a more thorough composition of Mars's mysterious satellites.http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Japan_aims_to_uncover_how_moons_of_Mars_formed_999.htmlSonda ma posiadać następujące instrumenty naukowe:
- Neutron and Gamma-ray Spectrometer (NGRS)
- Wide Angle Multiband Camera (WAM)
- Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRS)
- Telescopic Camera (TL)
- Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)
- Circum-Martian Dust Monitor (CMDM)
- Mass Spectrum Analyzer (MSA)
Sonda MMX miałaby wystartować we wrześniu 2024 i dotrzeć w okolice Czerwonej Planety w sierpniu 2025. Jak wszystko dobrze pójdzie próbki regolitu Fobosa dotrą na ziemię w 2029 roku

A na koniec link do japońskiej strony sondy Mars Moon eXploration
http://mmx.isas.jaxa.jp/en/index.html