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Japan launches Planet-B Mars probe to orbit
Japan's unmanned Planet-B probe begins orbiting Earth and the moon en route to Mars, renamed Nozomi. The half ton craft lifed from Kagoshima on July 4, 1998, with an $80 million budget, aims to study Martian atmosphere, sand storms, and subsurface water using orbital data and high frequency pulses. NASA's tracking network will receive transmissions.
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