Statistics for Current probes in the solar system

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Launch Date	Agency	Primery Mission	Answer	% Correct
August 5, 2011	United States NASA	Studying Jupiter from polar orbit.	Juno	60%
June 2, 2003	European Union ESA	Study the atmosphere and geology of Mars, search for sub-surface water, and deploy the Beagle 2 lander.	Mars Express	60%
July 30, 2020	United States NASA	Searching for evidence of organic material on Mars and engaging in exploration of the landing site at Jezero Crater.	Perseverance Rover	60%
September 5, 1977	United States NASA	Investigating Jupiter and Saturn, and the moons of these planets.	Voyager 1	60%
August 20, 1977	United States NASA	Visiting and studying all four gas giants.	Voyager 2	60%
October 19, 2018	ESA, Japan JAXA	Spacecraft consists multiple spacecraft which will later split up. Study Mercury's form, interior structure, geology, composition, and craters, to understand Mercury's magnetic field, to characterize the composition it's atmosphere, to test Einstein's theory of general relativity, to search for asteroids sunward of Earth, and to generally study the origin and evolution of a planet close to a parent star.	BepiColombo	40%
November 26, 2011	United States NASA	Searching for evidence of organic material on Mars, monitoring methane levels in the atmosphere, and engaging in exploration of the landing site at Gale Crater.	Curiosity Rover	40%
December 3, 2014	Japan JAXA	Asteroid study and sample-return	Hayabusa2	40%
April 14, 2023	European Union ESA	Mission to study Jupiter's three icy moons Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede, eventually orbiting Ganymede as the first spacecraft to orbit a satellite of another planet.	JUICE	40%
January 19, 2006	United States NASA	The first spacecraft to study Pluto up close and ultimately the Kuiper Belt.	New Horizons	40%
September 8, 2016	United States NASA	Asteroid study and sample-return	OSIRIS-REx	40%
August 12, 2018	United States NASA	Observation of solar wind, magnetic fields, and coronal energy flow.	Parker Solar Probe	40%
October 13, 2023	United States NASA	To orbit a main belt asteroid.	Psyche	40%
March 14, 2016	European Union ESA	Study methane and other trace gases in the Martian atmosphere.	Trace Gas Orbiter (ExoMars 2016)	40%
April 7, 2001	United States NASA	Map the surface of Mars, and relay for the Curiosity rover. Its name is a tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey.	2001 Mars Odyssey	20%
May 20, 2010	Japan JAXA	The first Japanese Venusian probe.	Akatsuki	20%
February 17, 2007	United States NASA	Studying the effect of the solar wind on the Moon.	ARTEMIS P1/P2	20%
June 28, 2022	United States NASA	Test and verify the calculated orbital stability planned for the Gateway space station.	CAPSTONE	20%
July 22, 2019	India ISRO	Lunar topography, mineralogy, elemental abundance, and meassure the lunar exosphere.	Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter	20%
December 8, 2018	China CNSA	Rover seeking to characterize lunar far-side environment, including possible lunar mantle material.	Chang'e 4	20%
August 4, 2022	South Korea KARI and United States NASA	Surveying lunar resources such as water ice, uranium, helium-3, silicon, and aluminum, as well as producing a topographic map for future lunar landing sites.	Danuri	20%
July 19, 2020	United Arab Emirates UAESA	Study weather and atmosphere.	Emirates Mars Mission	20%
November 16, 2022	Japan JAXA	Halo orbiter to image Earth's plasmasphere, impact craters on the Moon's far side and L2 experiments.	EQUULEUS	20%
November 24, 2021	Italy ASI	To flyby a binary 65803 Didymos asteroid system, 65803 Didymos and Dimorphos	LICIACube	20%
October 16, 2021	United States NASA	To flyby 8 Jupiter trojans and one main belt asteroid.	Lucy	20%
June 18, 2009	United States NASA	Lunar mapping to identify safe landing sites, locate resources, messure radiation, and demonstrate new technologies.	Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter	20%
August 12, 2005	United States NASA	Analyze the landforms, stratigraphy, minerals, and ice of Mars.	Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter	20%
November 18, 2013	United States NASA	Study the Martian upper atmosphere and its gradual loss to space.	MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution)	20%
May 20, 2018	China CNSA	Communications satellite for Chang'e 4 lunar far-side mission and conducting joint China-Netherlands low-frequency astronomy experiment.	Queqiao	20%
September 7, 2023	Japan JAXA	Will demonstrate pinpoint precision, fuel-efficient landing technology.	SLIM lander	20%
February 10, 2020	European Union ESA	Take measurements of the inner heliosphere and nascent solar wind, and observe the Sun's of the polar regions.	Solar Orbiter	20%
July 23, 2020	China CNSA	Find evidence for current and past life and produce Martian surface maps. Orbital studies of Martian surface morphology, soil, and atmosphere.	Tianwen-1 Orbiter	20%
January 8, 2024	United States Astrobotic Technology	Lunar lander selected as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services carrying a total of 25 payloads to the Lunar surface, including the Iris cuberover and 5 Mexican micro-robots.	Peregrine Mission One	0%