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a question with a body, sent where humans can't follow.
means To probe is to investigate or explore something carefully, often by physically reaching into or sensing through it; as a noun, a probe is the slender instrument or mission sent to do exactly that.
from From Latin 'probare,' to test or prove (also the root of 'prove' and 'probable'), via the medieval Latin 'proba,' a test. It entered English first as a surgeon's slim tool for searching wounds — a way of asking the body a question — before the word reached outward to spacecraft, sensors, and any inquiry that pushes where the eye can't go.
- voyager 1
- now over 15 billion miles from home
- golden record
- carries Earth's sounds for aliens to find
- medical kin
- doctors probe wounds with the same word
- latin root
- means to test or prove worth
- interrogation
- a hard question is also a probe
voyager 1 — nasa spacecraft launched 1977, still transmitting data from interstellar space
curiosity rover — mars rover that landed in 2012 and discovered methane fluctuations in martian atmosphere
new horizons — nasa spacecraft that flew by pluto in 2015 and is exploring the kuiper belt