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Swift Satellite Captures Asteroid 2005 YU55’s Tumbling Flyby
If you want to photograph something in space, what better way than to have a spacecraft take the picture? The…
New ESA Images Reveal Volcanic History of Mars
[/caption] Earlier this week, The European Space Agency released new Mars images taken by instruments aboard the Mars Express spacecraft.…
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Russians Race against Time to Save Ambitious Phobos-Grunt Mars Probe from Earthly Demise
[/caption] Teams of Russian engineers are in a race against time to save the ambitious and unprecedented Phobos-Grunt sample return…
Trouble for the Phobos-Grunt Mission
[/caption] Russia's unmanned Phobos-Grunt spacecraft may be in serious trouble, as it apparently has encountered problems with either computer software…
Russia’s Bold Sample Return Mission to Mars and Phobos Blasts Off
Russia has successfully launched the Phobos-Grunt sample return mission to Mars aiming to return a soil sample from Phobos, the…
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Russian Mars Moon Sample Probe Poised to Soar atop Upgraded Rocket – Video
[/caption] After an absence of almost two decades, Russia is at last on the cusp of resuming an ambitious agenda…
Awesome Action Animation Depicts Russia’s Bold Robot Retriever to Mars moon Phobos
[/caption] In less than 48 hours, Russia’s bold Phobos-Grunt mechanized probe will embark on a historic flight to haul humanities…
Hatch Opens as Simulated Mars Mission Ends
The first Mars crew has "returned" home. Thee Mars500 crew of six complete their simulated mission to Mars, with the…
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NASA Robot seeks Goldmine of Science and Sun at Martian Hill along vast Crater
[/caption] NASA’s intrepid robogirl Opportunity is now swiftly scouting out locations at a Martian hill along gigantic Endeavour crater that…
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Phobos and Jupiter Conjunction in 3 D and Amazing Animation – Blastoff to Martian Moon near
http://youtu.be/u60IkqWF5D4 Video Caption: Phobos and Jupiter in Conjunction - taken from Mars orbit ! A movie of the 1 June…