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1 Probes Anna and Hanna Euclid Middle School Period 6 Space Odyssey

2 What is a Probe? A space probe is a scientific space exploration mission in which a robotic spacecraft leaves the gravity well of Earth and enters space

3 Probe Missions Future Missions: ~Aquarius Launch: 2010 ~GRAIL Launch: 2011 ~Juno Launch: August 2011 ~Mars Science Laboratory Launch: 2011 Current Missions: ~Space Technology 8 ~Moon Mineralogy Mapper ~ Jason 2 Past Missions: ~Explorer 1-5 Launch: 1958 ~Pioneer 3-4 Launch: 1958-1959 ~Rangers to the moon Launch: 1961-1965 ~Mariner 1-2 Launch: 1962 Rangers to the Moon

4 Historical Developments The first space mission, Sputnik 1 was an artificial satellite put into Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. On 3 November 1957, the Soviets orbited Sputnik 2, the first to carry a living animal into space – a dog. The United States achieved its first successful space probe launch with the orbit of Explorer 1 on 31 January 1958. Explorer 1 weighed less than 14 kilograms compared to 83.6 kg and 508.3 kg for Sputniks 1 and 2 respectively. Nonetheless, Explorer 1 detected a narrow band of radiation surrounding the Earth, named the Van Allen belts after the scientist whose equipment detected it.

5 Probe Facts The space probe Galileo traveled for over six years before it reached Jupiter in December 1995 Most probes are not designed to return to Earth

6 Pictures Magellan space probe Juno Space probe

7 Works Cited _____. Holt Science and Technology Astronomy. London: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 2002 136-141. “Space Probes.” Wikipedia. Internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_probe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_probe 6 February 2009. “ Space Probes.” Google. Internet: http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/. http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/ 9 February 2009.


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