Good guess. A little investigation would reveal just that. The probe had been scanning the surrounding environment and quickly sending it's findings to a remote location.

With the countdown defused, further investigation would go fairly undeterred. Not that it held much. The probe had stopped scanning, seeming to refuse to process any further information with an unknown connection plugged into place.

Nonetheless, the hardware and software it was built with suggested that it was analyzing the spatial area around it, measuring the distance and analyzing the composition of the nearby material. Probably for some sort of 3D map.