After the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed that “Moon Enceladus” Saturn’s satellites The sixth-largest moon is one of the most interesting in the search for extraterrestrial life forms, just like Europa. Jupiter’s satellites This is because the surface of the Moon is covered with ice caps and beneath the ice caps there may be huge oceans hidden. Scientists from NASA held the Enceladus Focus Group Conference and declared the moon to be a “supermoon.” “The most habitable extraterrestrial location in the Solar System known.”
With interest in this The team of scientists Therefore, a project has been made to develop a robot to explore and search for creatures similar to snakes or eels named Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS), under the responsibility of JPL’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is a team of NASA engineers designing and developing robots for the Enceladus lunar environment mission. The terrain is full of ice and liquid.
Robots that have developed this It can infiltrate the rift of Enceladus and can travel to liquid water below the surface of the planet. The robot is also equipped with an efficient propulsion system, also equipped with grips and propellers for underwater movement. Including a communication system for spacecraft that land on the surface and send survey data back to Earth.
The JPL lab team has taken the prototype robot to several locations on Earth’s ice sheets, including the Athabasca Glacier in Canada and Mount Meager Volcano in Canada. too The challenge of developing this robot lies in its ability to withstand cold and heat for a similar period of time.
The attraction of Enceladus is that before Voyager 1 spacecraft NASA’s orbit close to Enceladus in 1980 and Cassini-Huygens spacecraft NASA’s orbit close to the moon Enceladus in 2004 and has collected data found. Water vapor erupts from Enceladus’ south polar ocean. There are many organic compounds that contain both nitrogen and oxygen. which has a chance to produce life and has a high probability And the surface of the moon is covered with ice caps, and beneath the ice caps there may be huge oceans hidden. In principle, liquid water is an important factor for the existence of living things.
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