JPL’s Abigail Fraeman will help study the composition of Phobos and Deimos using instruments on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s spacecraft. NASA has selected 10 researchers from institutions across the U.S. to join the Science Working Team of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Mart
An artist’s concept of JAXA’s MMX spacecraft at Mars. NASA has selected 10 researchers to join JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration mission, launching in 2024. The mission aims to study and collect samples from Phobos and Deimos, with the samples scheduled to return to Earth in 2029. Credit: JAXA’s Abigail Fraeman will help study the composition of Phobos and Deimos using instruments on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s spacecraft.has selected 10 researchers from institutions across the U.S.
, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, will create high resolution digital terrain models of the Martian moons, measuring the properties of surface features, and studying the properties of the Phobos regolith through its interaction with the rover., California State University, San Bernardino, will study the particles of interplanetary dust that strikeR. Terik Daly,
In addition to the contributions of the participating scientists, and their teams of co-investigators, NASA is contributing the Mars-moon Exploration with Gamma rays and Neutrons spectrograph instrument, the Pneumatic Sampler technology demonstration, and other support.
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