On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars.
This was the last space mission launched by the Soviet Union. Its primary purpose was to study Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Its journey to the Red Planet took about 6 and a half months, and it spent the next two months taking pictures of the two moons and gathering data on Mars' atmosphere. It brought along two small landers to drop on Phobos, but mission control lost contact with the spacecraft before those landers made it to the Martian moon.
This was the last space mission launched by the Soviet Union. Its primary purpose was to study Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Its journey to the Red Planet took about 6 and a half months, and it spent the next two months taking pictures of the two moons and gathering data on Mars' atmosphere. It brought along two small landers to drop on Phobos, but mission control lost contact with the spacecraft before those landers made it to the Martian moon.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:04On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2
00:08arrived in orbit around Mars. This was the last space mission launched
00:12by the Soviet Union. Its primary purpose was to study Mars' two moons
00:16Phobos and Deimos. Its journey to the Red Planet took about six and a half
00:20months, and it spent the next two months taking pictures of the two moons and gathering data
00:24on Mars' atmosphere. It brought along two small landers to drop on
00:28Phobos, but Mission Control lost contact with the spacecraft before those landers
00:32made it to the Martian moon. And that's what happened on this day in space.
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