| Seminar: |
CPS Seminar
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| date: |
2023 January 17 (Tue) 16:00-
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| Room: |
CPS Conference Room and Online (Hybrid meeting)
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| Speaker: |
GENDA Hidenori (Professor, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
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| Title: |
"Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission"
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| Abstract: |
Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos. Two leading hypotheses, "capture theory" and "giant impact theory," have been considered for their origin, but they have not been settled. JAXA plans the 3rd Japanese sample return mission called Martian Moon eXploration (MMX). MMX spacecraft explores the Martian moons and brings back regolith samples from Phobos to Earth in 2029. The sample analysis should reveal their origin, but why is the origin of tiny Martian moons so important? What grand story can we draw about the solar system from the samples of the tiny small moon? In this seminar, I will briefly introduce MMX mission, and explain why we chose tiny satellites orbiting Mars.
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| Keywords: |
sample return, origin of Martian moons, formation and evolution of the solar system
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| Organizer: |
SAITOH Takayuki
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