Science Magazine Podcast — A moon heist, lava fountains, and predicting doomsday

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A moon heist, lava fountains, and predicting doomsday

Science Magazine Podcast

First up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Robin George Andrews describes Japan’s upcoming Martian Moons eXploration mission that will nab a sample from the surface of Mars’s moon Phobos. The material, due back to Earth in 2031, could reveal the origins of this mysterious moon, the past habitability of…

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