space probe
Plural
space probes
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an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore outer space, gather scientific data, and transmit it back to Earth
- Voyager 1, a space probe launched by NASA in 1977, has ventured into interstellar space and continues to send valuable data back to Earth.
- The Parker Solar Probe is a space probe on a mission to study the outer corona of the Sun and understand solar wind dynamics.
- The Juno spacecraft, orbiting Jupiter, acts as a space probe, studying the gas giant's atmosphere, magnetic field, and composition.
- Cassini-Huygens, a joint NASA-ESA mission, was a space probe that extensively studied Saturn and its moons, including the landing of the Huygens probe on Titan.
- OSIRIS-REx, a NASA space probe, is on a mission to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth for analysis.