In Search of Extraterrestrial Life
houses a global watery ocean. An autonomously navigating ice-melting probe is to locate, drill, collect and analyze fluid samples taken from under the ice surface. The project aim is to prepare a space [...] ice-melting probe is to locate water-filled cracks under the ice surface, drill down to them, and collect fluid samples for analysis. Tests in the Alps The Enceladus Explorer Initiative (EnEx) was thought [...] of identifying obstacles to drilling in the ice. Responsible for autonomous navigation The data collected by all the individual systems were forwarded via the surface station directly to the computers of