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THE MODERN WORLD
Probing the solar system

SPACE PROBES HAVE VISITED every planet
in the solar system. They take photographs
and gather data that cannot be collected
using Earth-based equipment. Some probes
fly past or orbit around planets or moons,
while others land. Two Voyager space
probes flew past the outer planets in the
1970s and 1980s. Two Viking spacecraft
landed on Mars in 1976. The Magellan
spacecraft orbited Venus from 1989 and A MAP OF JUPITER’S VAST MAGNETIC FIELD DIONE, ONE OF SATURN’S MOONS,
mapped its surface. The Pathfinder PRODUCED BY CASSINI’S INSTRUMENTS ORBITING ABOVE THE “A” RING
spacecraft landed on Mars in
1997 and released a rover vehicle Helium Thruster
to explore the surface. The tank
Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Radio
Mission landed two rovers in antenna
2003. The Cassini space probe
reached Saturn in 2004, and in
2005 its mini-probe, Huygens, Plutonium
power supply
landed on one of its moons,
Titan, and became the first
probe to land on a moon Main
of another planet. engine

Cosmic dust
analyser
Sun sensor
Experiment
platform

Radio antenna

Fuel for
Radio dish
Plasma thrusters
spectrometer

Huygens mini
probe

CASSINI SPACE PROBE
AND HUYGENS MINI-PROBE
PANORAMIC VIEW OF TITAN THE ROCK-STREWN SURFACE OF TITAN,
TAKEN AS HUYGENS DESCENDED PHOTOGRAPHED BY HUYGENS
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