On October 11, 1994, Magellan's orbit was changed for the last time and plunged to the surface of Venus about 2 days later.
IT LOOKED LIKE A GIANT SPACE PROBE!!! GOS TO WIKIPEDIA TO FIND OUT
Venus (for the space probe, not the explorer)
Venus
the purpose was to make a global map of the surface of Venus
The Magellan probe was designed to study Venus. It went to Venus in 1994.
It was 1990.
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) died on the Philippine island of Mactan, in Cebu, Philippines. He was a brave Portuguese who sailed around the world, or circumnavigated. Good thing he died.
NASA can still receive messages from the Voyager space probe if they wanted too. They have turned off the camera and the equipment to save power and memory.
Space probe is a station.
The Magellan spacecraft is a robotic space probe and is also known as the Venus Radar Mapper. It has a vehicle launch mass of 2,282 pounds.
they are still out there orbiting the sun. they no longer function
Which one - there were 18 pioneer probes.