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