Insider Blog NASA-Funded Robotic Sub Explores Earth’s Deepest Sinkhole
Posted May 17th, 2007 by adminNASA Tech Briefs INSIDER 05/17/2007
DEPTHX — an autonomous submarine that creates 3D maps of previously unexplored areas as it swims along and then uses those same maps to navigate back to the surface — is designed to survey and explore life in extreme regions on Earth and potentially in outer space. DEPTHX’s technology could be applied to future space probes of Europa, where scientists believe that deep cracks and holes in the ice offer a chance of finding extraterrestrial life. The technology has also been approved for a new NASA mission to explore one of Antarctica’s ice-bound polar lakes.
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