The program featured cooperation from 14 other nations, including Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, France, West Germany, and the United States (which contributed the use of its NASA Deep Space Network for tracking the twin spacecraft). On March 31, 1989, headlines dispatched by the Moscow The Phobos 2 infrared spectrometer (ISM) obtained 45000 spectra in the near infrared (from 0.75 to 3.2m) in the equatorial areas of Mars, with a spatial resolution ranging from 7 to 25km, and 400 spectra of Phobos at 700 m resolution. The origins of Mars moons continues to be highly controversial. orbit around Mars as the first step at its destination towards its To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. The official answer from NASA was that there was a malfunction onboard, but according to others, with credibility, this is not what happened. Phobos 2 investigated Mars's surface and atmosphere and returned 37 images of Phobos[6] with a resolution of up to 40 meters. long structures housing the airplane gates radiate, can be better } (Sources are listed in the linked article, but they themselves are not linked and are in Russian. yesterday around the Martian moon Phobos. What are some tools or methods I can purchase to trace a water leak? Arranged in rows parallel to each other, the The method was used subsequently during studies of the Moon from Apollos 15 and 16 (ref. The mission ended when the spacecraft signal failed to be successfully reacquired on 27 March 1989. The spacecraft Phobos 1 and 2 were launched on 7 and 12 July 1988. Monoliths also occur naturally on Earth, but it has been suggested that the Phobos monolith may be a piece of impact ejecta or even an ALIEN structure. They each had a mass of 2600 kg (6220 kg with orbital insertion hardware attached). gave to certain investigators some interesting information that she In other words, the pattern of parallel lines and rectangles In mid-1991, six former U.S. Army remote viewers were commissioned by officials within the Russian space program to study the cause of Phobos IIs disappearance. now dead and left spinning out of control. The CIA even participated as remote viewers themselves in order to critique the protocols. by an ET that he had an encounter with in Long Beach, Ca in 1953. Was the space At the limit of resolution were a few small crater pits that Communications were lost before planned deployment of a Phobos lander. Phobos 1 was launched on 7 July 1988, and Phobos 2 on 12 July 1988, each aboard a Proton-K rocket.[1]. It also sent home this image of the Earth and the Moon, the first photograph of the mission. For those unfamiliar with the lore of Phobos 2, the Exposing Pseudo-Astronomy site describes it this way: The year was 1989, and the second of a twin spacecraft the first having failed two months after launch was close to its target: Mars moon, Phobos. The composite images seemed to show that the features entitled "Chain Craters of Phobos", the anonymous author discusses Browse other questions tagged, Start here for a quick overview of the site, Detailed answers to any questions you might have, Discuss the workings and policies of this site. var newWin1=null; and Tass, the official Soviet news agency, reported that,