{"id":9166,"date":"2022-07-05T14:10:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9166"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:11:08","slug":"nasa-to-send-swimming-robots-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/nasa-to-send-swimming-robots-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to send swimming robots into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: (Ausaf Desk)- NASA has announced that it will be sending swimming robots to the &#8220;ocean worlds&#8221; in our solar system to explore what lies beneath the icy shells on different planets and moons.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency will be investing US$600,000 in a study that will look into the feasibility of sending tiny machine swimmers.<\/p>\n<p>However, these will look nothing like humanoids. These robots will be tiny triangular chocks.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are much interested in &#8220;ocean worlds&#8221; not only because they contain a lot of water but also because the chemical exchange between rocks and water could encourage life. The water environment could be much similar to earth.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ukraine-crisis-petroleum-prices-may-rise-by-up-to-rs7-per-litre-in-pakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ukraine crisis: Petroleum prices may rise by up to Rs7 per litre in Pakistan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>While Pluto is one example of such a world, the nearest surfaces include Jupiter&#8217;s moon Europa and Saturn&#8217;s moon Enceladus.<\/p>\n<p>Enceladus\u2019s ocean has already been tested by a spacecraft via plumes of ice crystals that shoot out of the cracks in the ice.<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s Europa Clipper mission hopes to find similar samples when it begins its flybys in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of sensing with independent micro-swimmers (SWIMS) is to land on one of the moons where the ice is comparatively thinner. The plan is to then use a radioactively heated probe to make a 25cm-wide hole to get to the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: (Ausaf Desk)- NASA has announced that it will be sending swimming robots to the &#8220;ocean worlds&#8221; in our solar system to explore what lies beneath the icy shells on different planets and moons. The space agency will be investing US$600,000 in a study that will look into the feasibility of sending tiny machine swimmers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6151],"class_list":["post-9166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}