{"id":30639,"date":"2016-09-30T01:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T08:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/if-theres-life-on-europa-robots-like-these-will-find-it"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:24:45","slug":"if-theres-life-on-europa-robots-like-these-will-find-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/if-theres-life-on-europa-robots-like-these-will-find-it","title":{"rendered":"If There\u2019s Life on Europa, Robots Like These Will Find It"},"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\/-RO-y-DJ1To?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The exploration of Europa begins under the ice in Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where a team of researchers, led by the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), has been testing a variety of robotic subs in recent years to learn about what technologies will work best when NASA eventually launches a mission to Jupiter\u2019s icy moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really want us to go down through the ice on Europa. I want to explore what\u2019s down there,\u201d says Britney Schmidt, assistant professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech and principal investigator for the NASA-funded project called SIMPLE, for Sub-ice Investigation of Marine and Planetary-analog Ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/09\/29\/if-theres-life-on-europa-robots-like-these-will-find-it\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7a38a50233-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-7a38a50233-57450241\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/09\/29\/if-theres-life-on-europ...5;57450241<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exploration of Europa begins under the ice in Antarctica. That\u2019s where a team of researchers, led by the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), has been testing a variety of robotic subs in recent years to learn about what technologies will work best when NASA eventually launches a mission to Jupiter\u2019s icy moon. \u201cI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30639","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\/30639","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=30639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60225,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639\/revisions\/60225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}