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This article provides the main scientific objectives and characteristics of the Phobos-Soil project, intended to fly to the Martian satellite Phobos, deliver its soil samples to the Earth, as well as explore Phobos, Mars, and the Martian environment with onboard scientific instruments. We give the basic parameters of the ballistic scenario of the mission, spacecraft, and some scientific problems to be solved with the help of the scientific instruments installed on the spacecraft.
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Original Russian Text © L.M. Zelenyi, A. V. Zakharov, G.M. Polischuk, M.B. Martynov, 2010, published in Astronomicheskii Vestnik, 2010, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 17–28.
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Zelenyi, L.M., Zakharov, A.V., Polischuk, G.M. et al. Project of the mission to Phobos. Sol Syst Res 44, 15–25 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003809461001003X
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