Astronomers use space probes to gather information about and images of the solar system. Space probes are unmanned spacecraft that can travel through our solar system and beyond. There are two kinds of space probes. Identify them and describe what they do.
The two different types of space probes are lunar and solar. Lunar probes photograph the moon’s surface. Solar probes (a famous one is the Parker Solar Probe) trace the flow of energy that heats and the solar increases corona and solar wind, decide the structure and dynamics of the plasma and magnetic fields at the origin of the solar wind. Explore mechanisms that accelerate and transport energetic particles.
Space probes do not have astronauts. There are three different types of space probes. There are lunar (moon) probes, solar (sun) probes, and probes that investigate the rocky surfaces on planets, or the gases on gaseous planets.
