Atlas vs probe

Atlas

noun
  • A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line. 

name
  • The SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series. 

  • A subgroup of the Berber languages. 

  • A surname. 

  • A moon of Saturn. 

  • A crater in the last quadrant of the moon. 

  • The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis. 

  • A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri. 

probe

noun
  • A small, usually unmanned, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings. 

  • A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling. 

  • Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information. 

  • An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans. 

  • An investigation or inquiry. 

  • a move with multiple answers seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy 

  • Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure 

  • An act of probing; a prod, a poke. 

  • A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it. 

  • Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc. 

verb
  • To insert a probe into. 

  • To explore, investigate, or question 

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