Gravity

Gravity © 1984 Rodney, Fred.

You command the first fleet of interplanetary space probes. You launch them from aboard your command post on the space shuttle Enterprise. All probes are capable of hovering over any planet at 2000 feet (except Pluto) and each can escape back into space to perform gravitational tests elsewhere. The probes, however, cannot escape from the gravity and heat of the sun. All probes that enter the solar atmosphere for tests will disintegrate, but not before sending you the data you seek. You are left, upon disintegration, with a scene of the night sky from a telescope on your space shuttle. Since you have an unlimited supply of space probes, the disintegration of a few should not concern you. Begin with a probe on Earth, for reference.