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What is a flyby space probe?

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It is a telescope placed in space (like the hubble telescope). When placed in space the telescope does not have to "look" through the earth's atmosphere so its images are not destorted.

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A flyby space probe is a space probe meant to fly by an object in space.

It doesn't go into orbit, it doesn't land, it just flies by.

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