出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/25 12:28 UTC 版)
Fobos-Grunt (Russian: Фобос-Грунт meaning "Phobos-Soil") is a planned Russian sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. The Chinese Mars orbiter Yinghuo-1 will be sent together with the mission. Scheduled for launch late 2011 or early 2012, Fobos-Grunt will be the first Russian interplanetary mission since the failed Mars 96 mission. If successful it will be the first spacecraft to return a macroscopic extraterrestrial sample from a planetary body since Luna 24 in 1976. (The Japanese Hayabusa probe has returned with a sample from 25143 Itokawa in June 2010, but the sample only consisted of some particles of dust.)