Highly toxic Phobos-Grunt Mars probe will crash into ocean on Sunday, Russia says
Russia’s space agency on Wednesday pinpointed the likely trajectory of its stranded Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, predicting it would crash into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta later this week.
“The predicted window for the fragments of the Phobos-Grunt to fall to Earth is between January 14 and 16, with the central point on January 15 at 1:18 pm Moscow time, the Roskosmos agency said in a statement.
It also published a map showing the path of the gradually descending probe, with its location at the predicted time west of Jakarta, apparently falling into the Indian Ocean. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
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Why is it that Russia’s space agency can tell us where their satellite will crash, but when American satellites crash to...
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Nice! More cheery good news for our world’s oceans.
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