• DocumentCode
    1437117
  • Title

    Europa: life elsewhere?

  • Author

    Price, Dick

  • Volume
    13
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1998
  • Firstpage
    81
  • Lastpage
    84
  • Abstract
    At the Jet Propulsion Lab. scientists and engineers are spearheading far-reaching research efforts to prove beyond all doubt that life exists, or once existed, elsewhere than on Earth. In their most promising initiative, they hope to land a probe on the surface of Jupiter´s moon Europa, considered a likely site for extraterrestrial life, within the next 15 years. As planned this autonomous vehicle will melt down through the ice to a vast ocean below where it will conduct tests to investigate if life exists there
  • Keywords
    aerospace control; extraterrestrial life; intelligent control; mobile robots; Europa; Jet Propulsion Lab; autonomous vehicle; existance of life; extraterrestrial life; life existance; probe; Earth; Jupiter; Land surface; Marine vehicles; Mobile robots; Moon; Probes; Propulsion; Remotely operated vehicles; Sea surface;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Intelligent Systems and their Applications, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1094-7167
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/5254.722383
  • Filename
    722383