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NASA dropped a space exploration robot into Cape Cod’s waters to reach the darkest unknowns

sudshr47 March 1, 2019

When the Orpheus drone emerged from the waters off of Cape Cod in September 2018, deep sea biologist Tim Shank felt relieved. Four and a half years earlier, Shank, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), had sent a state-of-the-art exploration craft to crushing ocean depths — but the vehicle never returned.

Only shattered pieces of plastic drifted back up to the surface world.

This time, the new exploration robot Orpheus passed its first test: The machine dove alone into the darkened sea for an hour, without any human control. Critically, the drone came back. Enthusiastic about Orpheus’ return, Shank said he fired off an email to his ocean exploration colleague, the filmmaker and deep sea explorer James Cameron. Read more…

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Scientists won’t need to dig far to find signs of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa

sudshr47 July 24, 2018

Europa, a small moon orbiting Jupiter, has long attracted fascination because of its potential to host alien life.
Hidden below the moon’s frozen surface is thought to be an ocean, which could hold signs of life. It turns out scientists won’t h…

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NASA will visit an undersea volcano in Hawaii to figure out how to hunt for aliens

sudshr47 June 11, 2018

NASA will soon visit Hawaii’s Lo’ihi volcano, which sits more than 3,000 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean, all in the name of one day hunting for life out in the solar system.

The NASA expedition, called SUBSEA, endeavors to visit underwater volcanoes — which are often rich in colorful mats of microbial life — to better grasp how life might exist in deep, harsh, lightless places in our solar system.

Lo’ihi is an active volcano sitting about 50 miles off the coast of the Big Island.

NASA — which plans to launch the mission in August — will use the rocks and bacteria it collects from the volcano to plan ambitious robotic explorations of these water worlds, should the agency get funding. Read more…

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A new study just inched us closer to understanding if Jupiter’s moon Europa could host alien life

sudshr47 May 14, 2018

Europa is objectively one of the most badass moons in the solar system.

The relatively small moon of Jupiter is thought to have a liquid water ocean beneath its icy shell, and it’s considered one of the most likely places to host alien life in our solar system.

Now, thanks to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy this week, we may be inching closer to figuring out if Europa could host life in the ocean hidden beneath its frozen surface.

According to the new study, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft — which ended its mission by purposefully crashing into Jupiter’s atmosphere in 2003 — likely flew through a plume of water erupting from Europa in 1997. Read more…

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