Have shaped robot squid to search for extraterrestrial life – Prensa Latina

Written by Alfredo Boada Mola

May 11, 2015, 11:01 Washington, May 11 (PL) The National Administration of Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States selected the draft watercraft shaped squid to investigate the underground oceans under the icy crust moons in the solar system.

 It is one of 15 initiatives presented in the Advanced Concepts and Innovators contest NASA, which could become pioneering technologies in the future.

The tail and tentacular structures that robot could get electrodynamic energy from changing fields Magnetic occurring in those moons.

During the presentation of this proposal, explained that the purpose of the vehicle is to allow exploration of moons of gas giants as Europa, Jupiter’s moon, with oceans under its surface

About the size of the moon Europa has a liquid ocean about 100 kilometers deep

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