Sentence examples for sent to explore from inspiring English sources

A deep-space probe is a probe sent beyond the Earth-Moon system; if sent to explore other planets, it is also called a planetary probe.

The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail follows the expedition of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, sent to explore the West by President Thomas Jefferson in 1804.

In the first volume, a team of four scientists, identified by occupation rather than name (biologist, anthropologist, psychologist and surveyor), are sent to explore the mysterious "Area X", a wilderness in the American deep south.

Separatist movements are fighting against Earth's hegemony; a top secret expedition is sent to explore a newly-discovered network of alien wormholes and, back on Earth, the sinister Array Security and Immigration service will do anything to remain in control.

Two prototypes of the robots, without fully polished hardware and software, were sent to explore damaged buildings at the site of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant after the nuclear accident last year.

The spacecraft, called Deep Space 1, is to be a testbed for new technologies that may be incorporated into the next generation of probes sent to explore the solar system and beyond in the next century.

That column said this unnamed source (Wilson) had been sent to Niger to explore the Bush administration's enriched uranium claim and found it "unequivocally wrong".

The Dutch ships that sailed in the 17th century to the Spice Islands were the direct forerunners of the Voyager spacecraft sent out to explore the Solar System.

A survey was sent to airlines worldwide to explore the motivation for flexibility and desired aircraft characteristics, fleet structure, and flexibility parameters.

In 1518, Velázquez, as governor of Cuba, sent Grijalba to explore the Yucatán Peninsula.

He had a chance to live the legend when, at the age of 18 in 1978, his parents sent him to explore America for two months.