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Probing the Future
NASA provides up-to-date information on its current space probe missions through its Web sites. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides updates on missions in progress and on future missions. NASA’s Web sites also display the latest photos taken by space probes.
Robot probes will continue to play an important part in twenty-first-century
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О The Mars rover Opportunity took this photo of itself in 2004. It shows its rock abrasion tool after it ground into some Martian rock that covered it with red dust. |
space exploration. Some already have set out on their long journeys. The Messenger probe left Earth in 2004 and will arrive at Mercury in 2011. The New Horizons probe, launched in 2006, should reach Pluto in 2015.
Space probes continue their journeys into infinity, long after they have ceased to communicate with Earth. Scientists calculate that by the year 34,593, Pioneer 10 will have reached a star called Ross 248, 10.3 light years distant from Earth.
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