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Phobos mission rocket brakes for Mars orbit

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: e-exm01-00026

Image Size 300 DPI: 59 * 42 cm

After seven months traveling from Earth to Mars the Phobos mission rocket ignites its next propellant stage in order to slow down enough to enter an orbit around Mars that will bring it to within a few miles of Phobos.

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2011 - ILLUSTRATION - LAUNCHER - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - MARS - PHOBOS - PLANET - POSTER - ROCKET - SCIENCE FICTION - SPACE - SPACESHIP -