{"id":109522,"date":"2020-07-04T23:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T06:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/this-steampunk-looking-robot-could-be-nasas-newest-way-to-explore-frozen-alien-moons"},"modified":"2020-07-04T23:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T06:03:41","slug":"this-steampunk-looking-robot-could-be-nasas-newest-way-to-explore-frozen-alien-moons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/this-steampunk-looking-robot-could-be-nasas-newest-way-to-explore-frozen-alien-moons","title":{"rendered":"This steampunk-looking robot could be NASA\u2019s newest way to explore frozen alien moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-steampunk-looking-robot-could-be-nasas-newest-way-to-explore-frozen-alien-moons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s newest spacecraft concept looks like it belongs in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/guide_to_sci_fi_punks\">steampunk<\/a> convention more than a distant moon, but that\u2019s exactly where it\u2019s supposed to be headed.<\/p>\n<p>Steam power sounds like a relic of the Victorian era only glamorized by steampunk culture, but NASA is developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?release=2020-118\">SPARROW (Steam Propelled Autonomous Retrieval Robot for Ocaen Worlds)<\/a>, a new steam-powered robot concept that could potentially unearth life on moons like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/we-could-be-looking-for-aliens-on-enceladus-soon\">Enceladus<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/nasa-is-officially-going-to-europa-with-eyes-toward-a-2023-launch\">Europa<\/a>. Sure, our space agency might be known for the most cutting-edge technology, but even that could face potential disaster on frozen moons whose surfaces could be perilous. This relatively simple contraption is capable of doing things more complex robots can\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s newest spacecraft concept looks like it belongs in a steampunk convention more than a distant moon, but that\u2019s exactly where it\u2019s supposed to be headed. Steam power sounds like a relic of the Victorian era only glamorized by steampunk culture, but NASA is developing SPARROW (Steam Propelled Autonomous Retrieval Robot for Ocaen Worlds), a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}