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.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe, set to launch in 2018, will be humanity's first effort to touch the Sun, revolutionizing our understanding of the Sun's corona, the solar wind, and the greater heliosphere. 1  An artist's conception of the Parker Solar Probe taking leave of Earth.