The Soviet Mars Shot That Almost Everyone Forgot
(World News Russia)

A U.S. Atlas V rocket lifted off from Florida`s Cape Canaveral on July 30 to cap an unprecedented month of international Mars mission launches, including by the United Arab Emirates and China. The current flurry of missions to the "red planet" reflects renewed efforts to determine whether a `warmer and wetter Mars" might have hosted ancient life and follows in the figurative tracks of four...