{"id":200113,"date":"2024-11-25T03:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T09:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/nasa-tests-cellphone-sized-underwater-robots-for-future-ocean-world-missions-video"},"modified":"2024-11-25T03:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T09:24:28","slug":"nasa-tests-cellphone-sized-underwater-robots-for-future-ocean-world-missions-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/nasa-tests-cellphone-sized-underwater-robots-for-future-ocean-world-missions-video","title":{"rendered":"NASA tests cellphone-sized underwater robots for future ocean world missions (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-tests-cellphone-sized-underwater-robots-for-future-ocean-world-missions-video2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Designed to one day search for evidence of life in the briny ocean beneath the icy shell of Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa, these robots could play a key role in detecting chemical and temperature signals that might indicate alien life, according to scientists at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who designed and tested the robots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople might ask, why is NASA developing an underwater robot for space exploration?\u201d said Ethan Schaler, the project\u2019s principal investigator at JPL. \u201cIt\u2019s because there are places we want to go in the solar system to look for life, and we think life needs water.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designed to one day search for evidence of life in the briny ocean beneath the icy shell of Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa, these robots could play a key role in detecting chemical and temperature signals that might indicate alien life, according to scientists at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who designed and tested the robots. \u201cPeople [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200113","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=200113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}