Phobos II was (from what we're told), the very last space probe designed by the Soviet Union. that it was presented at a closed meeting with US and British officials. Have a youtube channel or website similar? Alexander Dunayev, chairman of the Society Space organization responsible for the Phobos II project, said that the doomed probe had photographed the image of a small odd-shaped object between itself and Mars. Phobos 2 investigated Mars's surface and atmosphere and returned 37 images of Phobos[6] with a resolution of up to 40 meters. In addition, the Fobos-Grunt mission, also designed to explore Phobos, ended in failure in 2011. and Tass, the official Soviet news agency, reported that,