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Phobos 1
Phobos 1 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in July 1988, the twin of Phobos 2 in a program intended to study Mars and place small landers on the Martian moon Phobos. Contact was lost in September 1988 en route to Mars after an erroneous ground command shut off the attitude-control thrusters, leaving the spacecraft unable to keep its solar panels pointed at the Sun, so its batteries ran down. Its si...
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Viking 2
The Viking 2 spacecraft was a NASA mission launched in 1976 to explore Mars. It landed near Utopia Planitia and functioned as both a lander and an orbiter. Its primary goal involved transmitting images of the Martian surface and conducting experiments designed to search for evidence of microbial life. The data collected remains a significant historical record of early robotic exploration on the Re...
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