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Phobos sample return mission: Scientific substantiation

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The goals and the main scientific objectives of the Phobos-Grunt space mission are considered. The content of the investigations of the main task of the mission—to return a sample of Phobos material to the Earth in order to answer the question about the origin of this satellite of Mars and to reconstruct its history—is discussed.

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Original Russian Text© E.M. Galimov, 2010, published in Astronomicheskii Vestnik, 2010, Vol. 44, No. 1,pp. 7–16.

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Galimov, E.M. Phobos sample return mission: Scientific substantiation. Sol Syst Res 44, 5–14 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0038094610010028

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