With the help of unmanned space probes, scientists today can carry out missions that astronomers of the past could only dream of: direct visits to strange cosmic worlds. In the meantime, several spacecraft have been sent to the distant reaches of our solar system, which in previous centuries were still considered unreachable. In the course of these ambitious space projects the experts were granted detailed insights into the characteristics and compositions of the most different celestial bodies, which should extend the astronomical knowledge of mankind significantly. Although the development of such probes takes many years and enormous financial resources, it is often necessary to deliberately destroy the respective spacecraft at the end of their missions in order to obtain the maximum scientific knowledge. Which unmanned space probes have already been deliberately directed to their own doom and which circumstances were the basis for these destructive maneuvers, we’ll show you now!
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