News tagged with phobos
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.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2011 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 09, 2009 |
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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.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2012 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 13, 2012 |
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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.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 12, 2012 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 17, 2011 |
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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.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 23, 2010 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2010 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2010 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2010 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2010 |
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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’ ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2009 |
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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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May 16, 2012 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2012 |
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Russia to try again for Phobos-Grunt?
Russia says "eisho odin ras"* for its Mars moon lander mission, according to Roscomos chief Vladimir Popovkin.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 01, 2012 |
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