space probe

noun
Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.
Also called probe.


Origin:
1955–60

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space probe
 
n
a vehicle, such as a satellite, equipped to obtain scientific information, normally transmitted back to earth by radio, about the atmosphere, surface, and temperature of a planet, conditions in space, etc

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Space probe is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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Each of the three fast-moving storms shown above was photographed at two-minute intervals by the space probe.
That's enough to pay for a space probe to explore the solar system.
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