{"id":177727,"date":"2023-12-08T05:23:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T11:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-unveils-nuclear-powered-cryobot-mission-concept-to-hunt-alien-life"},"modified":"2023-12-08T05:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T11:23:28","slug":"nasa-unveils-nuclear-powered-cryobot-mission-concept-to-hunt-alien-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-unveils-nuclear-powered-cryobot-mission-concept-to-hunt-alien-life","title":{"rendered":"NASA unveils nuclear-powered Cryobot mission concept to hunt alien life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-unveils-nuclear-powered-cryobot-mission-concept-to-hunt-alien-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is currently investigating the feasibility of a \u201ccryobot\u201d probe that would drill through the ice crusts of moons such as Europa and Enceladus to directly detect liquid water and discover the possibility of life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Apart from Mars, scientists are focusing their efforts on two other candidates: Jupiter\u2019s moon <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/jupiters-icy-moon-europas-subsurface-ocean-may-host-carbon\" title=\"Europa\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Europa<\/a> and Saturn\u2019s moon Enceladus.<\/p>\n<p>Compelling evidence indicates the potential existence of subsurface oceans beneath thick layers of water ice on these icy moons.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is currently studying the viability of a \u201ccryobot\u201d mission, which would drill through the ice crusts of these moons to directly detect the existence of liquid water and explore the potential for supporting life forms. This is likely to be a nuclear-powered probe that will be deployed with the assistance of a lander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is currently investigating the feasibility of a \u201ccryobot\u201d probe that would drill through the ice crusts of moons such as Europa and Enceladus to directly detect liquid water and discover the possibility of life beyond Earth. Apart from Mars, scientists are focusing their efforts on two other candidates: Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa and Saturn\u2019s moon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177727","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}