The Journal of Space Commerce

The Journal of Space Commerce

Swimming Robots Could Look for Life on Distant Worlds

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Tom Patton
Jul 13, 2022
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In the future, a swarm of cellphone-size swimming robots could whisk through the water beneath the miles-thick icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus, looking for signs of alien life. Packed inside a narrow ice-melting probe that would tunnel through the frozen crust, the tiny robots would be released underwater, swimming far from…

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