All cards · October 20, 2026 · from the year 2031
When the dust arrived, it carried stories from a world away
Sagamihara, Japan · 2031 (5 years ahead) · deep space exploration · contemporary scientific plate, silver and indigo with subtle texture
Why this card
Japan launched a mission on October 20, 2026 to collect samples from Phobos and return them to Earth. I chose 2031 to show the immediate return of those samples as a concrete achievement rather than a distant dream. The image depicts the collection site with the lander and Mars in the background to ground the science in what's actually happening today.