NASA developing snake-like robot to search for life on this planet's moon
Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino explains NASA's DART mission and why they intentionally crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid is testing a snake-like robot with hopes of one day sending it to one of Saturn’s moons in search of life outside of Earth., the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor, or EELS, is a mobile instrument platform being designed to explore internal terrain structures, assess whether organisms can live in those structures and search for evidence of life.
The snake-like robot is designed to get through any solid or liquid formations, while also collecting samples for assessment.Illustration of the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor, or EELS."The plumes erupting from its surface are conduits directly to liquid water, potentially making this the easiest path to a habitable liquid ocean," the project’s site reads. "There are many hypothesized environmental conditions informed by proposed crevasse eruption models.
These first-of-a-kind features are designed to allow the robot to enter a plume vent and get to the source. EELS team members, Masahiro Ono, Rohan Thakker, Marlin Strub, Phillipe Tosi and Michael Paton carry the 9-link EELS robot to the ice at the Pasadena Ice Rink.reported that the harsh conditions on Enceladus, which include temperatures of 300 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, factored into the design of the robot.
So far, the team designing the EELS has tested its capabilities in the examination of glaciers and volcanoes.NASA has not announced a launch date for the EELS project, and it could still be many years away. If the project is successful, though, the space agency said it will allow for deeper exploration into areas that were once unattainable.
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