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Phobos

A Crescent Moon in the Martian Sky

September 26, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Mars’ moon Phobos is captured in a daytime image by Curiosity (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A raw image taken on September 21 by Curiosity’s right Mastcam shows a daytime view of the Martian sky with a crescent-lit Phobos in the frame… barely visible, yes, [...]

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Curiosity Captures a Martian Eclipse

September 17, 2012

Yes, Mars gets eclipses too! This brief animation, made from ten raw subframe images acquired with Curiosity’s Mastcam on September 13 — the 37th Sol of the mission — show the silhouette of Mars’ moon Phobos as it slipped in front of the Sun’s limb. The entire animation spans a real time of about 2 [...]

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Doomed Phobos-Grunt Mars Mission Destructively Plunges to Earth

January 15, 2012

Story and Crash Zone Map updated 1 p.m. EST Jan 16 Today (Jan. 15) was the last day of life for Russia’s ambitious Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars after a desperate two month race against time and all out attempts to save the daring spaceship by firing up a malfunctioning thruster essential to putting the stranded [...]

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Update on Phobos-Grunt: Might the LIFE Experiment be Recovered?

November 15, 2011

Editor’s note: With Russian engineers trying to save the Phobos-Grunt mission, Dr. David Warmflash, principal science lead for the US team from the LIFE experiment on board the spacecraft, provides an update of the likelihood of saving the mission, while offering the intriguing prospect that their experiment could possibly be recovered, even if the mission [...]

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Russians Race against Time to Save Ambitious Phobos-Grunt Mars Probe from Earthly Demise

November 10, 2011

Teams of Russian engineers are in a race against time to save the ambitious and unprecedented Phobos-Grunt sample return mission from crashing back to Earth following the post launch failure of the upper stage rocket firings essential to propel the probe onward to destination Mars and scooping up dirt and dust from the tiny moon [...]

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