Phobos sample return mission : Prediction of Phobos composition from a giant impact and implications for the MMx/JAXA mission
Abstract
We present computations of possible mineralogical composition of material formed in a post-impact debris disk around Mars. The goal of this study is to predict potential minerals condensed in a circum-Martian disk from which Phobos and Deimos might be formed. The results of this study could be used as guidelines for both the remote sensing of Phobos surface and the analyses of samples from Phobos that will be returned to Earth by the JAXA Mars Moon eXplorer (MMX) mission, due to launch in 2024.
- Publication:
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European Planetary Science Congress
- Pub Date:
- September 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017EPSC...11..694R