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.
In short, been there and done that. 1  Many missions to Mars. 2  Messenger mission to Mercury just concluded. 3  Venus probes are old news. 4  Juno is scheduled to spend time at Jupiter shortly. 5  Cassini/Huygens has been exploring Saturn and it's system for years.  Pioneer and both Voyager probes also visited the outer planets.