Microbe-ferrying Russian probe reportedly won’t head for Mars orbit until 2011

Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe, which had been slated to head off this year on a sample-return mission to Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, will not launch until at least 2011, according to the Russian Interfax news agency.











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