Russian probe on 3 year mission to bring back a piece of Mars ... moon

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A RUSSIAN probe has blasted off on a three-year return mission to Mars that aims to bring the first sample of the Martian moon Phobos back to Earth.

The Phobos-Grunt probe blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Zenit-2SB rocket at 8.15pm GMT yesterday.

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