Posted by tourdemars to Phobos-Grunt at January 15, 2012 04:19 PM

Somewhere, probably in the southern Pacific between New Zealand and South America, the failed Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe returned ignominiously to Earth today, said the Russian space agency Roscosmos and the U.S. Space Command. The agencies said they believed the ship reentered the atmosphere shortly before 1 p.m. ET.