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Phobos-Grunt: China and Russia's joint venture for Mars
May 22 2007, Parul G

China and Russia will launch their Mars explorations as a joint mission in 2009 according to the Shanghai Space Administration. The mission is named Phobos-Grunt and will examine Mars environment, atmosphere, dust storms, plasma, radiation and also...

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