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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

Pioneering images of both martian moons (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the very first time, the martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together. ESA's Mars Express orbiter took these pioneering images last month. Apart from their ‘wow’ ...

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created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

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

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

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

Daring Russian sample return mission to Martian moon Phobos aims for November liftoff

In just over three weeks’ time, Russia plans to launch a bold mission to Mars whose objective, if successful , is to land on the Martian Moon Phobos and return a cargo of precious soil samples back to ...

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created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 11

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 flyby season starts again

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today Mars Express began a series of flybys of Phobos, the largest moon of Mars. The campaign will reach its crescendo on 3 March, when the spacecraft will set a new record for the closest ...

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created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3

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

ESA station keeps contact with Russian Mars mission Phobos-Grunt

Following the first successful contact on Tuesday, ESA's tracking station in Australia again established two-way communication with Russia's Phobos–Grunt spacecraft on 23 November. The data received ...

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created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Mars Express close flybys of martian moon Phobos

Mars Express has returned images from the Phobos flyby of 9 January 2011. Mars Express passed Mars' largest moon at a distance of 100km.

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created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Russian space probe to crash to Earth within hours

(AP) -- A failed Russian probe designed to travel to a moon of Mars but stuck in Earth orbit will come crashing down within hours, likely in a shower of fragments that survive the fiery re-entry.

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created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

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

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 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

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