{
  "id": 15700100,
  "title": "Japan launches unprecedented mission to bring back samples from Mars' moon Phobos",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/japan-launches-unprecedented-mission-to-bring-back-samples-from-mars",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-20T04:19:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Euronews",
    "slug": "euronews",
    "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/20/japan-launches-unprecedented-mission-to-bring-back-samples-from-mars-moon-phobos"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "NASA has landed nine spacecraft on Mars over the past 50 years, and China touched down in 2021, but no one has returned samples from Mars, let alone its moons.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Times",
        "title": "Japan launched Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission to land on Phobos",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/japan-launched-martian-moons-exploration-mmx-mission-to-land-on-phobos",
        "published": "2026-10-20T05:50:18.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}