On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/zzM5dv This was the last space mission launched by the Soviet Union. Its primary purpose was to study Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Its journey to the Red Planet took about 6 and a half months, and it spent the next two months taking pictures of the two moons and gathering data on Mars' atmosphere. It brought along two small landers to drop on Phobo

On March 27, 1989, the Soviet Union's Phobos 2 mission to Mars' moons ended in failure. ‘On This Day in Space’➡️ https://space-com.visitlink.me/Sn_fYA But the whole mission was definitely not a failure. Phobos 2 arrived in Mars orbit two months earlier and had been studying Mars and Phobos, the larger of the planet's two moons. During that time, it beamed 37 pictures of Phobos back to Earth. For the final phase of its mission, the spacecraft was getting ready to drop off two small landers on Pho