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Phobos spacecraft - Artist view

by

CNES/D.Ducros/Novapix

Reference

e-son27-00900

Date

2009-04-22

The Phobos program was an unmanned space mission consisting of two soviet probes launched in 1988 to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. Phobos 1 had quickly a failure, Phobos 2 became a Mars orbiter and returned 38 images of the red planet.