[meteorite-list] Russia Planning Double Assault on Mars

[Darren Garrison]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:43:40 -0700 (PDT), Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

>The first, in 2009, is a mission to orbit Mars and land on the tiny moon
>Phobos, where a rover would roam for three years. There, it would
>collect samples of soil to bring back to Earth - the first ever if

Hope everything goes well.  Neglecting the search for evidence of life, I'm more interested in a
rover and return sample from an asteroid than I am with a differentiated object.