Sentence examples for probe land from inspiring English sources

Billed as 'the sexiest space mission ever', did Rosetta's probe land safely on its comet?

Titan is the most distant body from Earth and the second moon in the Solar System to have a space probe land on its surface.

In the event, the probe landed almost exactly on target.

However, the probe landing isn't the only story to come out of the ESA this week.

1996 Nasa's Pathfinder probe lands on Mars and explores the surface with a wheeled rover called Sojourner.

The revised probe landing coordinates are 192.335 deg W and 10.573 deg S.

It is believed the probe landed on Mars on Christmas Day last year, but sent no signal back.

In January 2005, the Huygens probe landed in what looked like a fluvial plain with channels carved by methane.

For anyone who might have missed it, last week there was some dinky story about a probe landing on a comet for the first time ever.

NELSON MANDELA'S funeral takes place, Germany gets a new government, Ireland exits its bailout programme and a Chinese probe lands on the moon.

It was, he said, akin to "a space probe landing on a distant planet and beaming back proof of intelligent life".