The most important space probes in history
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Mariner 2 (1962) · Luna 9 (1966) · Pioneer 10 (1972). (Updated Aug 28, 2024.)
From Mariner 2, the first probe to reach another planet, through the Voyagers, now flying in interstellar space, to New Horizons at Pluto: the robots that explored the Solar System for us. Which is the greatest?
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Top 13
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1
Mariner 2 (1962)
The first probe to reach another planet: Venus.
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2
Luna 9 (1966)
The first soft landing on the Moon, with TV pictures.
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Pioneer 10 (1972)
The first to cross the asteroid belt and fly past Jupiter.
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Pioneer 11 (1973)
The first probe at Saturn.
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Viking 1 and 2 (1975)
They landed on Mars in 1976 and shaped what we knew about Mars for decades.
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Voyager 1 (1977)
Since 2012 the first probe in interstellar space.
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Voyager 2 (1977)
The only one to have visited Uranus and Neptune.
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Magellan (1989)
It mapped Venus by radar through its thick atmosphere.
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Galileo (1989)
The first probe in orbit around Jupiter; hints of water under Europa's ice.
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10
Cassini (1997)
13 years at Saturn; it discovered the water plumes of Enceladus.
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11
Huygens (2005)
It landed on Saturn's moon Titan.
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12
Rosetta and Philae (2004)
They orbited comet 67P and landed on it in 2014.
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New Horizons (2006)
In 2015 it became the first probe to reach Pluto.
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