Here's a fully explorable Mars colony concept. It runs entirely in the browser, (though definitely better on desktop), rendered in Three js. I'll post the link in the comments.

You can submit your questions now: https://www.reddit.com/u/UCBerkeley/s/we4fFYuTje

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, launched MMX aboard an H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center. Liftoff occurred at 4:41 a.m. on October 20 in Japan, corresponding to October 19 in the United States. The mission combines Japanese spacecraft technology with contributions from NASA, the European Space Agency, France’s CNES and the German Aerospace Center, DLR.

Scientists want more than a close look at an unfamiliar surface. Laboratory studies of returned grains could distinguish between competing explanations for Phobos and Deimos and reveal clues about the wider Mars system. Achieving that goal requires a sequence of operations that has only just begun.

Phobos and Deimos could be asteroids that Mars captured, or remnants of debris thrown into orbit by a giant impact. Those possibilities imply different chemical histories. Measuring the moons’ composition could therefore help reconstruct processes that operated while the solar system was taking shape.

Space got spooky this week, and we’ve got the Halloween news roundup! 🧛

In this episode of Spacing Out, planetarium educator Talia Sepersky breaks down three spine-tingling stories:

🔴 A stellar vampire: a small red dwarf caught feeding on a brown dwarf
🌙 NASA's new GIMLI investigation to search for a possible lunar cave that could one day shelter astronauts
🪐 Japan's MMX mission, set to be the first to land a rover on the Martian moon Phobos and return a sample to Earth