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Engineers fight for stranded Mars probe after 'sign of life' (Update)

Engineers fought desperately on Wednesday to save Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft after the Martian probe sent "a first sign of life" more than two weeks after being stranded in orbit.

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created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 15

Robotic spacecraft / rover hybrids for space exploration

The big news from space exploration is that small bodies in the cosmos offer tantalizing insight about the very formation of our solar system. So what strategy can be employed to inspect these mini-worlds ...

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created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Russia Mars probe 'crashes into Pacific Ocean': military

Russia believes fragments of its Phobos-Grunt probe which spiralled back to Earth after failing to head on a mission to Mars crashed Sunday into the Pacific Ocean, a spokesman for its space forces said.

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created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Uncertainty grows over Russia Mars probe crash site

Uncertainty about where a doomed Russian Mars probe might crash back to Earth grew Friday when the Roscosmos space agency changed its prediction thousands of miles (kilometres) from the Pacific to the Atlantic ...

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created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 8

Russian spacecraft to crash soon, risks unclear

(AP) -- A Russian space probe designed to burnish the nation's faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars' moons has turned into one of the heaviest, most toxic pieces of space junk ever.

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created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

New Views of Martian Moon and Surface

(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from two observations of the Martian moon Deimos and more than 600 observations of Mars, acquired by the high-resolution camera (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, became ...

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created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Phobos slips past Jupiter (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into ...

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created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Magnetic anomalies shield the Moon

Scientists have discovered a new type of solar wind interaction with airless bodies in our solar system. Magnetized regions called magnetic anomalies, mostly on the far side of the Moon, were found to strongly ...

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created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Clip reveals rover's eye view of bluish Martian sunset (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Mars movie clip gives us a rover's-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset, while another clip shows the silhouette of the moon Phobos passing in front of the sun.

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created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Martian moon Phobos may have formed by catastrophic blast

Scientists now have firm indications that the Martian satellite Phobos formed relatively near its current location via re-accretion of material blasted into Mars’ orbit by some catastrophic event. Two independent ...

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created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Phobos flyby success

Mars Express encountered Phobos last night, smoothly skimming past at just 67 km, the closest any manmade object has ever approached Mars' enigmatic moon. The data collected could help unlock the origin of ...

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created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Auspicious orbit marks run-up to Phobos flyby

(PhysOrg.com) -- On 26 January, Mars Express completed its 7777th orbit around the Red Planet, an auspicious milestone as the satellite is readied for the closest-ever flyby of Phobos, scheduled for just a ...

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created Jan 29, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Russian Mars probe meets inglorious end in Pacific

Russia vowed Monday to expose the officials responsible for the failure of a Mars probe that the military said crashed into the Pacific Ocean after orbiting the Earth for more than two months.

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created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Russia to try again for Phobos-Grunt?

Russia says "eisho odin ras"* for its Mars moon lander mission, according to Roscomos chief Vladimir Popovkin.

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new approach to predicting spacecraft re-entry

(PhysOrg.com) -- In mid-December 2011, the Laboratory received a call from the Air Force Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC). At the time, Laboratory scientists were working with JSpOC to upgrade their command ...

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created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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