Russian Space Agency plans to start sample return mission to Phobos in 2009 under the name "Phobos-grunt. The return capsule will include a life science experiment Planetary Society under the title Life interplanetary flight experiment, or of life. [39] The second contribution to this mission with China's satellite shooting called "Yinghuo-1", which will be released in the orbit of Mars, as well as grinding and sieving the soil of the scientific demands on Phobos lands. [40] [41] [42]
Astrium in the UK, also plans to sample return mission. [43]
In Phobos Monolith "(right of center), as adopted by the Mars Global Surveyor (MOC Image 55103) in 1998.
In 2007, the Canadian Space Agency is funding research Optech, and the Mars Institute for unmanned missions to Phobos known as Prime (Phobos Reconnaissance and International Exploration of Mars). The proposed location for the landing ship PRIME is "Phobos Monolith", "bright object near Stickney, which casts a shadow visible. [44] [45] The base of astronaut Aldrin described the "monolith" on July 22, 2009 interview with C-Span: "We must go boldly where people have not gone before. Fly to comets, asteroids trip to visit the moon of Mars. There, in the cast there. It is very unusual structure of the potato in the form of the object, which is around Mars in seven hours time. When people learn that they are going to say: "Who is there? Who is there? "Universe to put it there. If you decide to God it is ..." [46]
Phobos has also been proposed as an early target for the manned mission to Mars, [47], since landing on Phobos will be much less complicated (and therefore much less expensive) than landing on the surface of Mars itself. A lander on Mars is connected must be able in the atmosphere and the subsequent entry into the ground to return to orbit without any ancillary facilities (capacity of which has never been an attempt on the manned spacecraft of human design), or require the establishment of support facilities in place (in the colony or bust "missions), and the lander is designed to Phobos may be based on equipment designed for lunar and asteroid landings.