MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has launched an unmanned probe on a daring mission to reach Phobos, a moon of Mars, and to fly samples of its soil back to Earth.
The Phobos-Grunt (Phobos-Soil) craft was successfully launched by a Zenit-2 booster rocket at 12:16 a.m. Moscow time Wednesday (20:16 GMT Tuesday) from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Russia launches unmanned probe to sample soil on Mars moon
November 8, 2011
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