{"id":29647,"date":"2016-09-02T08:46:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T15:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/new-plans-show-autonomous-submarine-designed-to-explore-the-oceans-of-jupiters-moon"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:43:15","slug":"new-plans-show-autonomous-submarine-designed-to-explore-the-oceans-of-jupiters-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/new-plans-show-autonomous-submarine-designed-to-explore-the-oceans-of-jupiters-moon","title":{"rendered":"New Plans Show Autonomous Submarine Designed To Explore The Oceans Of Jupiter\u2019s Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aT4jWmamPLQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/forstudents\/5-8\/features\/oceans-the-great-unknown-58.html\">often said<\/a> that we know more about the Moon than our own oceans. But what about the oceans of other moons?<\/p>\n<p>Robotic-engineering company German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has been working on the <a href=\"http:\/\/robotik.dfki-bremen.de\/en\/research\/projects\/eurex.html\">EurEx (Europa Explorer)<\/a> project, which includes conceptual plans for a robotic system capable of exploring Europa\u2019s icy subterranean oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Europa, Jupiter\u2019s sixth closest moon, is thought to be one of the more habitable pockets of our solar system, as it\u2019s believed to have a salty liquid water ocean beneath its surface. The ocean is also shielded from radiation, making Europa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/26905-jupiter-moon-europa-alien-life.html\">a promising host<\/a> for alien life.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/space\/new-plans-show-autonomous-submarine-designed-to-explore-the-oceans-of-jupiters-moon\/\">http:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/space\/new-plans-show-autonomous-su...ters-moon\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s often said that we know more about the Moon than our own oceans. But what about the oceans of other moons? Robotic-engineering company German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has been working on the EurEx (Europa Explorer) project, which includes conceptual plans for a robotic system capable of exploring Europa\u2019s icy subterranean oceans. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29647","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60512,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29647\/revisions\/60512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}