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Project of the mission to Phobos

Zelenyi, L. M.; Zakharov, A. V.; Polischuk, G. M. +1 more

This article provides the main scientific objectives and characteristics of the Phobos-Soil project, intended to fly to the Martian satellite Phobos, deliver its soil samples to the Earth, as well as explore Phobos, Mars, and the Martian environment with onboard scientific instruments. We give the basic parameters of the ballistic scenario of the …

The selection and characterization of the Phobos-Soil landing sites

Basilevsky, A. T.; Shingareva, T. V.

This paper shortly describes the selection technique for the landing sites of the Phobos-Soil spacecraft, the characteristics of the Phobos relief, the history of choosing the potential landing sites in the process of working on the project, and the suggestions to shift the landing sites to the region recently imaged by the Mars Express spacecraft…