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  • NASA's Undersea Robot Crawls Beneath Antarctic Ice in Test for Icy Moons

    11/20/2019 11:14:38 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 11 replies
    space.com ^ | 11/20/2019 | By Meghan Bartels
    NASA engineers are already working on an underwater rover they hope could one day tackle the challenges posed by ocean worlds like Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. A team has been working on such a robot, called Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration or BRUIE, for a few years now. NASA is taking a prototype of that rover to Antarctica for testing in the most similar environment to those moons found on Earth. The tests will take place at Australia's Casey research station along the coast of Antarctica far south of Australia, where BRUIE will spend a month exploring...