Which of the following pairs is are correctly matched Spacecraft Purpose 1 Cassini Huygens Orbi...........

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Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched ?

Spacecraft: Purpose

1. Cassini-Huygens : Orbiting the Venus and transmitting data to the Earth

2. Messenger : Mapping and investigating

3. Voyager 1 and 2 : Exploring the outer solar system

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1 only

2 and 3 only

1 and 3 only

1, 2 and 3

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The Cassini–Huygens mission, commonly called Cassini, was a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency to send a probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.

Messenger was a NASA robotic spacecraft that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015. The probe was launched aboard a Delta II rocket in August 2004 to study Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field.

The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, to study the outer Solar System. The probes were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.