Artist's impression of the Soviet Phobos spacecraft in orbit around Mars in early 1988,prior to its final approach to Phobos (upper right),the larger of the two small Martian moons. The spacecraft was launched in July 1988. It is scheduled to spend 120 days orbiting Mars,making observations of the planet's atmosphere & magnetosphere & taking high-resolution images of the surface. It will then approach Phobos,descending to within 50 metres of the moon's surface before releasing two lander probes. The view of Mars in this picture shows the three Tharsis volcanos,with the giant Olympus Mons volcano beyond them | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Baum, Julian |
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