Exploration of Martian moons

NASA has selected 10 scientists to join the international work team for the Martian moon exploration mission, the MMX of Jaxa, which is Japan's aerospace exploration agency.

The mission, which is scheduled to launch in September 2024, will visit the two Martian moons phobos and deimos, land on the phobos' surface, and collect a sample of materials from it.

The plan is to send these Phobos samples to earth where they would arrive in 2029, with this mission we may finally be able to know the origin of these enigmatic moons, because astronomers have been wondering for a long time if they are captured asteroids or are the remains that remained. from a much larger moon or perhaps they are fragments of material thrown into space by the impact of a giant asteroid on Mars.

Will Phobos end up crashing into the red planet or will it break into pieces and create a dusty ring around Mars, because the destruction of that moon is inevitable, maybe in a few million years or it may already be breaking up, when will this happen? event? It is something that this mission can perhaps clarify for us, according to Japanese researchers, it is expected that the Martian moons have also accumulated sediments that were expelled from Mars over billions of years, either by volcanic reactivity or by the impact of asteroids.

Let us remember that the gravity on Mars is much less than that of the earth, it is 38% with respect to terrestrial gravity, so it is much easier for the rocks of a catastrophic event to shoot into space, for this reason the observation of The moons will provide a record about the evolution of the Martian surface, also if the moons were formed during a collision between Mars and Giant asteroids the lunar material will reveal the original conditions on Mars during that ancient time, offering information about the formation of the planet and its young environment.

Although if the moons are asteroids, it can also be interesting, since their composition can help to clarify the process of transporting elements such as water to the planets, since there is also water on asteroids.

In other words, exploring the Martian moons is important not only to understand the moons themselves, but also to learn the history of Mars and to further our planetary science, and when I talk about planetary science, I'm also talking about our planet Earth.

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