NASA wants to start building a swarm of mini swimming robots that can scour oceans on other planets for aliens. An expert for the space agency has come up with an idea for an ice-melting probe that…
NASA wants to start building a swarm of mini swimming robots that can scour oceans on other planets for aliens.
Such a plan could be used to sniff out signs of alien life beneath the miles-thick icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus. “With a swarm of small swimming robots, we are able to explore a much larger volume of ocean water and improve our measurements by having multiple robots collecting data in the same area.”A team will begin building prototypes over the next two years after securing funding. They plan to create wedge-shaped robots that are about 5 inches long and 3 to 5 cubic inches in volume.
The wild project has been aptly named SWIM – or Sensing With Independent Micro-Swimmers. A team will begin building prototypes over the next two years.It can then relay the information to a surface-based lander for experts back on Earth to study.
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