It will be the first Russian-led mission to Mars since the loss of the Phobos 1 and Phobos 2 probes in 1988 and the botched launch of the Mars 96 spacecraft.

Several planned missions to visit directly, such as Phobos 1 and 2 and, more recently, Phobos Grunt, have failed in space, limiting our understanding of this potentially helpful moon to secondary ...

What would it feel like to stand on the tiny moons of Mars,Phobos and Deimos? Explore the surreal experience of visiting Mars ...

Phobos is sometimes called a "doomed moon", as it is set to potentially crash into Mars. As well as this, close-up images of the moons show Phobos has peculiar 1-kilometer ...

The volunteer research subjects start their virtual journey to Phobos on October. 1, 2021, in a ground-based habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Efforts to reach the Martian moon Phobos have long been outshined by missions to the red planet itself. Now, scientists in Russia, Canada and the U.S. are preparing their own missions to the ...

The USSR, and later Russia, developed three missions exclusively for the study of the martian moons: Phobos 1 and 2 in the late 1980s, which saw radio contact break off after arriving at Mars after ...

It has been 15 years since Russia has attempted to send a spacecraft to another planet, but that dry spell is due to end next week with the launch of an ambitious mission to return soil samples ...

The Soviet Union launched two probes to Phobos in July 1988, Phobos 1 and 2, but Phobos1 was lost en route in September, while Phobos 2 died shortly after reaching Phobos in January 1989.