Cool Mission to Mars with a Unique Docking Maneuver with the Phobos Monolith

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Canadian Mission Concept to Mysterious Mars moon Phobos to Feature Unique Rock-Dock Maneuver

We've been working on this for several months now but we just put out the first press release. We decided on the target landing site at the PRIME science team meeting the Mars Institute hosted in January in Vancouver.

Canadian Mission Concept to Mysterious Mars moon Phobos to Feature Unique Rock-Dock Maneuver

"The science team has tentatively selected a feature on the surface of Phobos as the landing site. Known as the “Phobos Monolith”, it is a building-sized object. The mission intends to use a new maneuver coined rock-dock, to dock with Phobos."


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