{
    "archive_path": "archive/1792490779.206833",
    "base_url": "www.france24.com/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples",
    "basename": "20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples",
    "bookmarked_date": "2026-10-20 10:06",
    "canonical": {
        "archive_org_path": "https://web.archive.org/web/www.france24.com/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples",
        "dom_path": "output.html",
        "favicon_path": "favicon.ico",
        "git_path": "git/",
        "google_favicon_path": "https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.france24.com",
        "headers_path": "headers.json",
        "htmltotext_path": "htmltotext.txt",
        "index_path": "index.html",
        "media_path": "media/",
        "mercury_path": "mercury/content.html",
        "pdf_path": "output.pdf",
        "readability_path": "readability/content.html",
        "screenshot_path": "screenshot.png",
        "singlefile_path": "singlefile.html",
        "warc_path": "warc/",
        "wget_path": "www.france24.com/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples.html"
    },
    "domain": "www.france24.com",
    "extension": "",
    "hash": "13JM299EGEZ8D14VFRMJ",
    "history": {
        "archive_org": [],
        "dom": [],
        "favicon": [
            {
                "cmd": [
                    "curl",
                    "--silent",
                    "--location",
                    "--compressed",
                    "--max-time",
                    "120",
                    "--output",
                    "favicon.ico",
                    "--user-agent",
                    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/0.7.4 (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/) curl/curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)",
                    "https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.france24.com"
                ],
                "cmd_version": "curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)",
                "end_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:08.883892+00:00",
                "index_texts": null,
                "output": "favicon.ico",
                "pwd": "/data/archive/1792490779.206833",
                "schema": "ArchiveResult",
                "start_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:08.260471+00:00",
                "status": "succeeded"
            }
        ],
        "git": [],
        "headers": [
            {
                "cmd": [
                    "curl",
                    "--silent",
                    "--location",
                    "--compressed",
                    "--head",
                    "--max-time",
                    "120",
                    "--user-agent",
                    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/0.7.4 (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/) curl/curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)",
                    "https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples"
                ],
                "cmd_version": "curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)",
                "end_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:09.386926+00:00",
                "index_texts": null,
                "output": "headers.json",
                "pwd": "/data/archive/1792490779.206833",
                "schema": "ArchiveResult",
                "start_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:08.892731+00:00",
                "status": "succeeded"
            }
        ],
        "htmltotext": [],
        "media": [],
        "mercury": [
            {
                "cmd": [
                    "/app/node_modules/@postlight/parser/cli.js",
                    "https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples",
                    "--format=text"
                ],
                "cmd_version": "1.0.0",
                "end_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:16.184434+00:00",
                "index_texts": null,
                "output": "ArchiveError: Mercury was not able to get article text from the URL",
                "pwd": "/data/archive/1792490779.206833",
                "schema": "ArchiveResult",
                "start_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:14.855682+00:00",
                "status": "failed"
            }
        ],
        "pdf": [],
        "readability": [
            {
                "cmd": [
                    "/app/node_modules/readability-extractor/readability-extractor",
                    "/tmp/tmp12ep1hd0",
                    "https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples"
                ],
                "cmd_version": "0.0.11",
                "end_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:14.840822+00:00",
                "index_texts": [
                    "A Japanese spacecraft rocketed towards Mars on Tuesday on an unprecedented quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples. Five of the world\u2019s space agencies joined forces for the five-year mission that will attempt to land a robotic prospector plus a rover on Phobos, the larger and closer of Mars\u2019 two pint-sized moons. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which is leading the bold sampling effort, launched the spacecraft before dawn from the country's main spaceport on Tanegashima Island. Officials declared success an hour later when the spacecraft separated as planned from the rocket's upper stage. Flight controllers burst into applause and jumped to their feet, shaking hands and embracing. While NASA has successfully landed nine spacecraft on Mars over the past 50 years and China scored a 2021 touchdown, no one has ever ventured onto Phobos or its sidekick Deimos. And no one has managed to fetch samples from Mars, let alone its moons. If successful, bits of dust, soil and rocks from Phobos will arrive on Earth in 2031. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of adrenaline and a lot of excitement and a lot of wow,\u201d said NASA astrophysicist Tom Statler, who\u2019s involved with the project. Read moreFrench, US and Russian astronauts return to Earth after eight months in space Japan has an edge going in, with two asteroid sample returns already under its cosmic belt. Phobos is a lumpy, potato-shaped rock just 14 miles (22 kilometres) or so across. Examining pieces of it can explain how Mars\u2019 moons \u2013 and possibly moons elsewhere \u2013 came to be. Dubbed MMX for Martian Moons Exploration, the $578 million mission features a hefty 5-tonne spacecraft that should reach Mars by late next summer. It will sync up with Phobos\u2019 tight orbit around the red planet, before ejecting the French-German rover that\u2019s named Idefix after the white terrier in the Asterix comics. No bigger than a microwave oven, Idefix will plop onto Phobos by itself, bouncing for several minutes before coming to a halt in the moon's extraordinarily low gravity. The four-wheeled rover is designed to right itself if it lands upside down. All bets are off, though, if it sinks into soft soil or gets wedged between rocks, said the French Space Agency\u2019s Julien Baroukh. Once the rover\u2019s solar panels are deployed, the vehicle can no longer right itself, he added, which is why it will move at a glacial 1 millimetre per second (0.04 inches per second). \n                    Space: Europe urged to find its path\n        \n                        \n                \n                    \n        To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement.\n        \n\n        One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site.\n            \n                                         \n\n\n    \n        \n\n\n            \n\n\n        \n\n\n                        \n    Cover image:                    \u00a9 France 24                            \n11:33                \n    \n            \n                                    \n    \n\n Idefix will serve as a \u201cscout for safety,\u201d according to Baroukh, as it prowls around Phobos for 100 days. Japanese flight controllers want to avoid powdery soil and rough terrain when the mothership \u2013 a four-legged stationary lander \u2013 descends to the surface to gather samples in late 2028 or 2029. The lander will spend just two hours on Phobos, drilling and vacuuming up at least one-third of an ounce (10 grams) of material, before launching back into space. It will study Deimos during a series of flybys before leaving the Martian neighbourhood in 2030 and hustling back to Earth for a 2031 sample delivery in the Australian desert. It\u2019s a treacherous undertaking, with wreckage littering the path. Read moreNASA finds a 'once in a century' lunar crater, bigger than the Roman Colosseum The moons\u2019 names aren\u2019t exactly comforting: Phobos is Greek for fear and Deimos means dread. They\u2019re the twin sons of the god of war Ares \u2013 Mars in Roman mythology. Russia stumbled in all three of its Phobos attempts as well as many other Mars endeavours. In its only other Mars mission, Japan failed to get a spacecraft into orbit around the red planet. Even NASA has had its share of flops in a bid to answer the burning question: Did life ever exist on Mars? By studying Mars\u2019 moons, scientists hope to learn whether Phobos and Deimos formed in the aftermath of an ancient collision between Mars and a battering space rock. It\u2019s also possible that the moons might be stray asteroids that became ensnared in Mars\u2019 gravity. Read more'All human emotions': French astronaut Sophie Adenot returns to Earth Either way, scientists anticipate finding traces of Mars on Phobos, making the samples an irresistible two-for-one that should help demystify planetary and moon formation, and perhaps even the recipe for life. The findings will help shape future Mars missions\u00a0\u2013 including those by astronauts\u00a0\u2013 said NASA\u2019s acting planetary science director Lindsay Hays. \u201cIt is a once-in-a-lifetime chance. We are part of the first sample return mission from the Martian system,\u201d said the German Space Agency's rover chief Markus Grebenstein. Japan isn\u2019t the only one looking to claim the scientific riches packed into the Martian system\u2019s rocks and dirt. China plans to launch a sample return mission to Mars in 2028, while NASA is still debating how to retrieve the more than 30 sample tubes collected by the Perseverance Mars rover, the new champion for off-Earth driving. Japan and China could be neck-and-neck in getting samples back from the Martian system. Both are targeting 2031. Japan is investing $350 million in this mission. NASA is contributing $87 million, the French Space Agency about $68 million, the German Space Agency about $56 million and the European Space Agency some $17 million. (FRANCE 24 with AP)"
                ],
                "output": "readability",
                "pwd": "/data/archive/1792490779.206833",
                "schema": "ArchiveResult",
                "start_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:12.553841+00:00",
                "status": "succeeded"
            }
        ],
        "screenshot": [],
        "singlefile": [],
        "title": [
            {
                "cmd": [
                    "curl",
                    "--silent",
                    "--location",
                    "--compressed",
                    "--max-time",
                    "120",
                    "--user-agent",
                    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/0.7.4 (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/) curl/curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)",
                    "https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples"
                ],
                "cmd_version": "curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)",
                "end_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:12.546179+00:00",
                "index_texts": null,
                "output": "Japan launches mission to explore Mars' moons and bring back samples - France 24",
                "pwd": "/data/archive/1792490779.206833",
                "schema": "ArchiveResult",
                "start_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:12.493528+00:00",
                "status": "succeeded"
            }
        ],
        "wget": [
            {
                "cmd": [
                    "wget",
                    "--no-verbose",
                    "--adjust-extension",
                    "--convert-links",
                    "--force-directories",
                    "--span-hosts",
                    "--no-parent",
                    "-e",
                    "robots=off",
                    "--reject=js,mjs,woff,woff2,ttf,otf,eot,mp4,m4v,mov,webm,ogv,mkv,avi,flv",
                    "--timeout=120",
                    "--restrict-file-names=windows",
                    "--page-requisites",
                    "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/0.7.4 (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/) wget/GNU Wget 1.21.3",
                    "--compression=auto",
                    "--timestamping",
                    "https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples"
                ],
                "cmd_version": "GNU Wget 1.21.3",
                "end_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:12.484573+00:00",
                "index_texts": null,
                "output": "www.france24.com/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples.html",
                "pwd": "/data/archive/1792490779.206833",
                "schema": "ArchiveResult",
                "start_ts": "2026-10-20T13:24:09.400043+00:00",
                "status": "succeeded"
            }
        ]
    },
    "icons": null,
    "is_archived": true,
    "is_static": false,
    "latest": {
        "archive_org": null,
        "dom": null,
        "favicon": "favicon.ico",
        "git": null,
        "media": null,
        "pdf": null,
        "screenshot": null,
        "singlefile": null,
        "title": "Japan launches mission to explore Mars' moons and bring back samples - France 24",
        "warc": null,
        "wget": "www.france24.com/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples.html"
    },
    "link_dir": "/data/archive/1792490779.206833",
    "newest_archive_date": "2026-10-20T13:24:14.855682+00:00",
    "num_failures": 1,
    "num_outputs": 5,
    "oldest_archive_date": "2026-10-20T13:24:08.260471+00:00",
    "path": "/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples",
    "schema": "Link",
    "scheme": "https",
    "snapshot_id": "8c94d099-5521-42f3-b744-d3d85696f05b",
    "sources": [
        "/data/sources/1792490779-import.txt"
    ],
    "tags": ",world_news,pool,war-wiki",
    "tags_str": "world_news,pool,war-wiki",
    "timestamp": "1792490779.206833",
    "title": "Japan launches mission to explore Mars' moons and bring back samples - France 24",
    "updated": "2026-10-20T13:24:08.260282+00:00",
    "updated_date": "2026-10-20 13:24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20261020-japan-launches-mission-to-explore-mars-moons-and-bring-back-samples"
}