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Published November 09, 2011, 12:00 AM

Phobos-Grunt probe


Russian space engineers work to prapare the unmanned Phobos-Grunt probe on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 2, 2011. The daring Russian mission to fly an unmanned probe to Phobos, a moon of Mars, and fly samples of its soil back to Earth was derailed on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, right after its launch by equipment failure.(AP photo/ Russian Roscosmoc space agency, HO)
Read the article: Russian scientists racing to save Mars moon probe stuck in Earth's orbit