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: NASA spacecraft have a wide range of sizes, from the Cassini probe, which is the size of a school bus, to the Sojourner rover, which is about the size of a microwave. When their solar panels are deployed, the Mars Exploration Rovers (going to Mars in 2003) are about the size of a dining table.