Mars Express Images Phobos-Grunt Landing Sites

Credit: ESA/DLR/FU BERLIN (G. NEUKOM)
European and Russian planners for the upcoming Phobos-Grunt (Phobos Soil) sample-return mission to the tiny Martian moon have some new high-resolution imagery of possible landing sites. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter is using its unique orbit around the Red Planet to capture...

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