Planned landing site of the Russian Phobos-Grunt mission
Planned landing site of the Russian Phobos-Grunt mission
The DLR-operated High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft acquired images of the martian moon Phobos on 9 January 2011. This image has a resolution of 8.2 metres per pixel, acquired during orbit 8974. The ellipses mark the previously planned (red) and currently planned (blue) landing sites for the Russian Phobos-Grunt (Phobos-Soil) mission.
Copyright note:
As a joint undertaking by DLR, ESA and FU Berlin, the Mars Express HRSC images are published under a Creative Commons licence since December 2014: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. This licence will also apply to all HRSC images released to date.
