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Mars 96 spacecraft - Artist view

by

CNES/D.Ducros/Novapix

Reference

e-son27-01104

Date

2009-04-28

Artwork showing the mission sequence of soviet Mars 96 spacecraft. Two surface stations and two penetrators should be deployed on the martian surface. Launched in 1996, a rocket failure happened and the probe was desintegrated in the Earth atmosphere.