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Re:Martian Moons eXploration launching today to land on Phob... by ck2 on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:56PM (#50156424)
is the ability to more easily return samples from Phobos vs Mars because it's a moon with much less gravity?

that seems logical, clever actually they are doing that alternative

but Mars and its moon likely very different composition?

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Re:Martian Moons eXploration launching today to land on Phob... by gus_massa on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:46PM (#50173133)
> but Mars and its moon likely very different composition?

I guess it's related to the origin of them. I had too look the details, it's controversial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Mars

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