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Heavy Ions Killed Mars Probe – Investigators

20:31 03/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)

Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was lost because space radiation disrupted its computer system, a commission investigating the incident said on Friday.

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Phobos-Grunt spacecraft
20:31 03/02/2012
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13:57 31/01/2012
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