MOSCOW, January 15 (Itar-Tass) —— Fragments of the Phobos-Grunt interplanetary research rover have fallen into the Pacific Ocean, 1,250 kilometers west of the Wellington Island (Chile), Russian Aerospace Defense Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin told Itar-Tass.

He said the Russian space control network was monitoring the Phobos-Grunt de-orbiting and fall non-stop.