Japan will launch the first-ever sample return mission from the Martian system technologyreview.com

JAXA, Japan’s national space agency, has just approved a robotic mission to visit the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos and retrieve a small sample from the former to bring back to Earth.
The mission plan: It’s called Martian Moon eXploration, or MMX.
JAXA currently plans to launch MMX in 2024 and make it to the Martian system the following year.
It may seem a long way to travel to come back with such a tiny piece of the Martian system, but it’s actually a hundred times more material than Hayabusa2 is bringing back from Ryugu.
If MMX is successful, it will return to Earth in 2029, completing the first round-trip mission to Mars and back.