What is the definition of a probe? It is a huge structure in space where astronauts live and work.
It is a manned vehicle that allows astronauts to travel into space.
It is a piece of equipment that is designed to orbit Earth in space.
It is a device that collects information from space and sends it back to Earth.

1: a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity)

2a

: any of various testing devices or substances: such as

(1): a pointed metal tip for making electrical contact with a circuit element being checked

(2): a usually small object that is inserted into something so as to test conditions at a given point

(3): a device used to penetrate or send back information especially from outer space or a celestial body

(4): a device (such as an ultrasound generator) or a substance (such as radioactively labeled DNA) used to obtain specific information for diagnostic or experimental purposes

b: a pipe on the receiving airplane thrust into the drogue of the delivering airplane in air refueling

(you didn't attach a copy of the poem, but i'm answering as best as i can)

since a simile compares two unlike things using like or as, it kind of gives an item the ability to do something it can't.

example: "the player was like a tiger on the field"

in this sentence, the simile conveys the idea that the player was fast and strong, like a tiger.