space probe
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In 2034, NASA's space probe Dragonfly is expected to reach Titan, with the aim of investigating what is on its surface.
From Science Daily • Oct. 17, 2025
When scientists using NASA's Cassini space probe discovered organic compounds in blocks of ice from Enceladus, they wondered if this meant the Saturnian moon might have the ingredients for life.
From Salon • May 29, 2024
They then used a laser beam to excite the droplets and mass spectral analysis to mimic what instruments on the space probe will detect.
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2024
Four years later, she joined a four-day mission on the same spacecraft when it sent the Magellan robotic space probe to Venus to map the planet’s surface.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2023
April 3, 1966: The Luna 10 space probe becomes the first spacecraft to orbit the moon.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
