6:56 AM
Jalal Hameed Bhatti
[ BBC Science & Environment ] 2 Dec
Too bad for the stranded Russian Mars Mission Phobos-Grunt, as the European Space Agency announced on Friday that it was now ceasing any further attempts to get a signal.
The Russian craft has been stuck circling the Earth since its launch in early November. Apart from some brief radio contact with the wayward probe just over a week ago, there has been total silence from the spacecraft.
The Russian engineers have not lost hope and are still trying to recover the stranded spacecraft.
