SPACE — On March 27, 1989, the Soviet Union’s Phobos 2 mission to the moon Mars ended in failure. But the whole mission is clearly not a failure.
Phobos 2 arrived in Mars orbit two months earlier and has studied Mars and Phobos, the larger of the planet’s two moons. During that time, 37 Phobos images were sent back to Earth.
For the final phase of its mission, the spacecraft prepares to drop two small landers on Phobos. One lander is something called a ‘hopper’ that can move on the lunar surface. Read: History Today: Huygens Discovers Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon.
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As the Phobos 2 probe made its way to Phobos to deploy the lander, mission control suddenly lost contact with it. The mission was then lost. The cause of the failure was determined to be a computer error. Source: Space.com
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