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solar probe

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solar probe [′sō·lər ′prōb]
(aerospace engineering)
A space probe whose trajectory passes near the sun so that instruments on board may detect and transmit back to earth data about the sun.
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US and European scientists were Tuesday bidding farewell to the tenacious solar probe Ulysses which has been recording data around the sun for more than 18 years, four times longer than planned.
Scientists bid adieu to plucky solar probe by AFP / AFP American Edition
US and European scientists were Tuesday bidding farewell to the tenacious solar probe Ulysses which has been recording data around the sun for more than 18 years, four times longer than planned.
Scientists bid adieu to plucky solar probe by AFP / AFP Global Edition
A team at George Mason University caught the sight of the blurp of ionised gas that blasted into space from surface of the Sun without warning, using images taken by the STEREO twin solar probes, BBC reported.
Space probe captures stealth storm eruption from Sun by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan)
 
 
 
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