Font Size: Welcome to the Camarillo Airport. The Camarillo Airport (CMA), as it is known today, was the former Oxnard Air Force Base. The base was established in the early 1950âs for coastal defense and a variety of military aircraft operated here until 1969 when the base was deactivated.
5. Atmospheric Probes: These space probes remain in, or transit through the atmosphere of the planet or moon and study weather patterns and atmospheric peculiarities until its end. The Huygens probe to Titan acted as an atmospheric probe and then a lander once it was on the surface of Saturn's moon.
A space probe is a spacecraft which travels into space with no people in it, usually in order to study the planets and send information about them back to earth. Its rings were discovered by telescope from Earth, but space probes later found that spectacular rings surround some other planets. The Pioneer probes have on board ultra-violet instruments which are measuring light that we can't measure on the earth.