Russia's Obsession With Mars' Mystery Moon - A New Mission To Phobos ?

Russia's Obsession With Mars' Mystery Moon - A New Mission To Phobos ? | Unexplained Things Are Out There: "Russia will send another sample mission to the Martian moon Phobos if the European Space Agency (ESA) decides not to include Russia in its ExoMars program, the head of Russia’s space agency said on Tuesday. The space agency also announced that cosmic radiation was the most likely cause of the failure of the Phobos-Grunt probe that crashed to Earth this month, and suggested that a low-quality imported component may have been vulnerable to the radiation."