"probe" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Astronauts have tramped upon the moon, and planetary probes - our robotic surrogates - have now either touched upon or flown by every planet in the solar system but one, Pluto.
- The probe had been flying since before I was born, but that had been its first message since leaving the solar system.
- As the probe flew it began to take on a crystalline appearance.
- Three probes launched by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had already flown by Saturn in the 1970's and 1980's.
- The probe would fly within 120,000 miles of Mars on June 19.
- Twice at least, probes flew through the middle of her scattered ship.
- Under an extended mission, the probe would fly on to meet a dying comet known as Wilson-Harrington in January 2001, and then continue on for a September swing by the comet Borrelly, one of the most active to visit the inner solar system regularly.
- In contrast, exploration of the planets evolved haphazardly over the decades as American probes flew to Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and beyond.
- During these extended missions, the probe flew by Io three times in late 1999 and early 2000 and three times in late 2001 and early 2002.
- The probe then flew by the Comet Grigg-Skjellerup in 10 July 1992 which it approached to a distance of about 200 km.
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