Phobos-Grunt (Фобос-Грунт) Mission Animation.



On November 7, Roscosmos (the Russian Federal Space Agency) will launch an unmanned mission to Mars and its larger moon Phobos. Onboard will be a Chinese microsatellite to orbit the red planet for a year, but the real star will be the Russian Phobos-Grunt lander, which will touch down onto the surface of Phobos, retrieve a soil sample and return it to Earth by 2014.The Planetary Society is also contributing to the mission with a payload of live microorganisms to test the hypothesis that life can survive in space after being blasted off planets from meteor impacts.

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Cameron’s mission in Moscow

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Why is it difficult for Russia to maintain friendly relations with Great Britain? Other news of the day 12/09/2011 Cameron’s mission in Moscow HEARST, David You can argue until the cows come home why Russia and Britain should be better friends: Russia is a serious emerging market with 140 million consumers; its the largest exporter of oil, and largest of exporter of gas to Europe (although not to the UK); there are 600 British companies operating in Russia, with £3.5bn of exports and over £2bn of invisibles.
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