NASA has developed an underwater probe it hopes to someday use for exploring alien oceans, like the massive ice-covered one on Jupiter’s moon Europa.
NASA has developed an underwater probe it hopes to someday use for exploring alien oceans, like the massive ice-covered one on Jupiter’s moon Europa.
For now, NASA is testing how the Buoyant Rover handles in the frigid, methane-heavy lakes around Barrow, Alaska.
In creating the apparatus, the project team got a great deal of inspiration from the land-based robotic explorers that have been so successful in recent times.
They kept the general idea of equipment being affixed to treads, but flipped th
NASA has developed an underwater probe it hopes to someday use for exploring alien oceans, like the massive ice-covered one on Jupiter’s moon Europa.
For now, NASA is testing how the Buoyant Rover handles in the frigid, methane-heavy lakes around Barrow, Alaska.
In creating the apparatus, the project team got a great deal of inspiration from the land-based robotic explorers that have been so successful in recent times.
They kept the general idea of equipment being affixed to treads, but flipped th
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