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US space agency NASA shows off robot snake for exploring alien worlds.
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Robotic snake designed to slither around and explore hostile planetary environments is being developed by US space agency NASA.
The robust machines designed to slide down narrow vents on icy worlds, including Saturn's moons and search their subsurface oceans.
The machine is called the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor but is known as EELS for short.
It is under development by a team of engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory based at the California Institute of Technology.
It could one day be put to work on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus which scientists believe could contain signs of life in oceans that are thuight to be under the surface.
EELS is 4 metres long and weighs about 100 kg.
Its body is made up of 10 identical segments that rotate, using screw threads for propulsion, traction, and grip.
So far it has been tested in different environments with snow, sand, and ice and at a local indoor ice rink.
NASA engineers designed EELS to autonomously sense its environment and calculate risk, as well as recover on its own.
OPS: Artist's concept of an EELS robot snake exploring an alien world
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US space agency NASA shows off robot snake for exploring alien worlds.
Ferrari Press Agency
EELS 1
Ref 14769
10/05/2023
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech
Robotic snake designed to slither around and explore hostile planetary environments is being developed by US space agency NASA.
The robust machines designed to slide down narrow vents on icy worlds, including Saturn's moons and search their subsurface oceans.
The machine is called the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor but is known as EELS for short.
It is under development by a team of engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory based at the California Institute of Technology.
It could one day be put to work on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus which scientists believe could contain signs of life in oceans that are thuight to be under the surface.
EELS is 4 metres long and weighs about 100 kg.
Its body is made up of 10 identical segments that rotate, using screw threads for propulsion, traction, and grip.
So far it has been tested in different environments with snow, sand, and ice and at a local indoor ice rink.
NASA engineers designed EELS to autonomously sense its environment and calculate risk, as well as recover on its own.
OPS: The EELS robot snake on test
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US space agency NASA shows off robot snake for exploring alien worlds.
Ferrari Press Agency
EELS 1
Ref 14769
10/05/2023
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech
Robotic snake designed to slither around and explore hostile planetary environments is being developed by US space agency NASA.
The robust machines designed to slide down narrow vents on icy worlds, including Saturn's moons and search their subsurface oceans.
The machine is called the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor but is known as EELS for short.
It is under development by a team of engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory based at the California Institute of Technology.
It could one day be put to work on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus which scientists believe could contain signs of life in oceans that are thuight to be under the surface.
EELS is 4 metres long and weighs about 100 kg.
Its body is made up of 10 identical segments that rotate, using screw threads for propulsion, traction, and grip.
So far it has been tested in different environments with snow, sand, and ice and at a local indoor ice rink.
NASA engineers designed EELS to autonomously sense its environment and calculate risk, as well as recover on its own.
OPS: The EELS robot snake on test
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FEATURE - Pix of the Day: Bilder des Tages
March 5, 2018 - Vandenberg Base, California, U.S. - At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the aft stub adapter (ASA) and interstage adapter (ISA) for a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is prepared for transport from Building 7525 to Space Launch Complex 3. The launch vehicle will send NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, spacecraft to land on Marchs. InSight is the first mission to explore the Red Planet's deep interior. InSight is scheduled for liftoff May 5, 2018. InSight will be the first mission to look deep beneath the Marchtian surface. It will study the planet's interior by measuring its heat output and listen for Marchsquakes. InSight will use the seismic waves generated by Marchsquakes to develop a map of the planet's deep interior. The resulting insight into Marchs formation will provide a better understanding of how other rocky planets, including Earth, were created. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the InSight mission for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by its Marchshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The spacecraft, including cruise stage and lander, was built and tested by Lockheed Marchtin Space in Denver. Several European partners, including France's space agency, the Centre National d'Étude Spatiales, and the German Aerospace Center, are supporting the mission. United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colorado, is providing the Atlas V launch service. NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at its Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is responsible for launch management (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Nasa-Sonde Juno erreicht den Jupiter
Mandatory Credit: Photo by NASA/Aubrey Gemignani/REX/Shutterstock (5745685c)
Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), demonstrates Juno's orbit path at a pre-Jupiter Orbit Insertion (JOI) news briefing
Juno Pre-Jupiter Orbit Insertion (JOI) news briefing, Pasadena, California, USA - 04 Jul 2016
Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), demonstrates Juno's orbit path at a pre-Jupiter Orbit Insertion (JOI) news briefing, on Monday, July 4, 2016 in the Theodore von Kármán Auditorium at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. The Juno mission launched August 5, 2011 and will arrive at Jupiter July 4 to orbit the planet for 20 months and collect data on the planetary core, map the magnetic field, and measure the amount of water and ammonia in the atmosphere.
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Mars
360 Degree Panorama Mars Pathfinder Landing Site.
This is the first contiguous, uniform 360-degree color panorama taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) over the course of sols 8, 9, and 10 (Martian days). Different regions were imaged at different times over the three Martian days to acquire consistent lighting and shadow conditions for all areas of the panorama. At left is a lander petal and a metallic mast which is a portion of the low-gain antenna. On the horizon the double "Twin Peaks" are visible, about 1-2 kilometers away. The rock "Couch" is the dark, curved rock at right of Twin Peaks. Another lander petal is at left-center, showing the fully deployed forward ramp at far left, and rear ramp at right, which rover Sojourner used to descend to the surface of Mars on July 5. Immediately to the left of the rear ramp is the rock Barnacle Bill, which scientists found to be andesitic, possibly indicating that it is a volcanic rock (a true andesite) or a physical mixture of particles. Just beyond Barnacle Bill, rover tracks lead to Sojourner, shown using its Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument to study the large rock Yogi. Yogi, low in quartz content, appears to be more primitive than Barnacle Bill, and appeared more like the common basalts found on Earth. The tracks and circular pattern in the soil leading up to Yogi were part of Sojourner's soil mechanics experiments, in which varying amounts of pressure were applied to the wheels in order to determine physical properties of the soil. During its traverse to Yogi the rover stirred the soil and exposed material from several centimeters in depth. During one of the turns to deploy Sojourner's Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer, the wheels dug particularly deeply and exposed white material. Spectra of this white material show it is virtually identical to the rock Scooby Doo, and such white material may underlie much of the site. Deflated airbags are visible at the perimeter of all three lander petals
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Rover Curiosity image shows area of blast from rocket engines
This color image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows an area excavated by the blast of the Mars Science Laboratory's descent stage rocket engines. This is part of a larger, high-resolution color mosaic made from images obtained by Curiosity's Mast Camera on August 9, 2012 EDT. Shown in the inset in the figure are pebbles up to 1.25 inches (about 3 centimeters) across (upper two arrows) and a larger clast 4 inches (11.5 centimeters) long protruding up by about 2 inches (10 centimeters) from the layer in which it is embedded. UPI/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS / eyevine
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Rover Curiosity image shows wall of Gale Crater
This color image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows part of the wall of Gale Crater, the location on Mars where the rover landed. The images in this mosaic were acquired by the 34-millimeter MastCam over about an hour of time on August 9, 2012 EDT, each at 1,200 by 1,200 pixels in size. UPI/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS / eyevine
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Rover Curiosity image of Mount Sharp on Mars
Gale Crater's Mount Sharp on Mars is seen on the upper left of this image which is a portion of the first color 360-degree panorama from NASA's Curiosity rover, made up of thumbnails. Blast marks from the rover's descent stage are in the foreground. UPI/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS / eyevine
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Rover Curiosity image
This mosaic, whose images were obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover's navigation cameras on August 8, EDT, shows part of the left side of the rover and two blast marks from the descent stage's rocket engines. Several small bits of rock and soil, which were made airborne by the rocket engines, are visible on the rover's top deck. UPI/NASA/JPL-Caltech / eyevine
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Curiosity lands on Mars
August 5,2012. Pasadena California USA- MSL-JPL team leaders give high fives to the EDL team members (Entry Decent Landing) at the start of the press conference for Curiosity landing Mars and on target Sunday evening at 10:32 pm PST. at JPL in Pasadena.(Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Curiosity lands on Mars
August 5,2012. Pasadena California USA- MSL-JPL team leaders give high fives to the EDL team members (Entry Decent Landing) at the start of the press conference for Curiosity landing Mars and on target Sunday evening at 10:32 pm PST. at JPL in Pasadena.(Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Curiosity lands on Mars
August 5,2012. Pasadena California USA- JPL Curiosity team member cheer as Curiosity landing Mars and on target Sunday evening at 10:31 pm PST. at JPL in Pasadena. (Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Curiosity lands on Mars
August 5,2012. Pasadena California USA- EDL team members (Entry Decent Landing) are cheer on as they make their way in at the start of the press conference for Curiosity landing on Mars and on target Sunday evening at 10:32 pm PST. at JPL in Pasadena.(Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Rover Curiosity to land on Mars
August 3, 2012, Pasadena, California, United States: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians get ready at the Rover Curiosity center, as it is 48hrs away with just 600,000 miles left to go for its landing on Mars on Sunday evening at 10:30 pm PST, at JPL in Pasadena. (Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Rover Curiosity to land on Mars
August 3, 2012, Pasadena, California, United States: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians get ready at the Rover Curiosity center, as it is 48hrs away with just 600,000 miles left to go for its landing on Mars on Sunday evening at 10:30 pm PST, at JPL in Pasadena. (Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Rover Curiosity to land on Mars
August 3, 2012, Pasadena, California, United States: JPL head conductor Jim Wang does some last minute test in case of any glitches with an exact replica of the Rover Curiosity, as it is 48hrs away with just 600,000 miles left to go for its landing on Mars on Sunday evening at 10:30 pm PST, at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. (Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Rover Curiosity to land on Mars
August 3, 2012, Pasadena, California, United States: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians get ready at the Rover Curiosity center, as it is 48hrs away with just 600,000 miles left to go for its landing on Mars on Sunday evening at 10:30 pm PST, at JPL in Pasadena. (Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Rover Curiosity to land on Mars
August 3, 2012, Pasadena, California, United States: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians get ready at the Rover Curiosity center, as it is 48hrs away with just 600,000 miles left to go for its landing on Mars on Sunday evening at 10:30 pm PST, at JPL in Pasadena. (Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Rover Curiosity to land on Mars
August 3, 2012, Pasadena, California, United States: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) lead flight director David Oh shows that Rover Curiosity is on target and 48hrs away with just 600,000 miles left to go for its landing on Mars on Sunday evening at 10:30 pm PST, at JPL in Pasadena. (Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Rover Curiosity to land on Mars
August 3, 2012, Pasadena, California, United States: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians get ready at the Rover Curiosity center, as it is 48hrs away with just 600,000 miles left to go for its landing on Mars on Sunday evening at 10:30 pm PST, at JPL in Pasadena. (Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Rover Curiosity to land on Mars
August 3, 2012, Pasadena, California, United States: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians test out and get ready in case of any glitches with a exact replica of the Rover Curiosity , as it is 48hrs away with just 600,000 miles left to go for its landing on Mars on Sunday evening at 10:30 pm PST, at JPL in Pasadena. (Gene Blevins/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Blue Eyed Storm -- February 27, 2009
March 17, 2009, Pasadena, California, USA: Rendered in myriad hues, vivid details of Saturn's stormy atmosphere play out below the shadow of the rings. A well defined storm swirls through the atmosphere of the southern hemisphere in the lower left of the image, like the tight blue circle of an eye's iris. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 36 degrees below the ringplane. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Dec. 29, 2008 at a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (680,000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 51 degrees. Image scale is 60 kilometers (37 miles) per pixel.. Credit: JJ Arnold / Polaris (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS) -
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Grooves on Blue -- March 13, 2009
March 16, 2009, Pasadena, California, USA: The Cassini spacecraft peers through Saturn's delicate, translucent inner C ring to see the diffuse blue limb of Saturn's atmosphere. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 20 degrees above the ringplane. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 25, 2008 at a distance of approximately 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 8 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel. Image scale is 8 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel.. Credit: JJ Arnold / Polaris (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)