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A Robot Made of Ice Could Adapt and Repair Itself on Other Worlds – Universe Today
If you can’t beat them, join them. There are a lot of ice worlds in the Solar System. Would a robot made partly of ice, that could repair itself, be useful?
Some of the most tantalizing targets in space exploration are frozen ice worlds. Take Jupiter’s moon Europa for instance. Its warm salty subsurface ocean is buried under a moon-wide sheet of ice. What’s the best way to explore it?
Maybe an ice robot could play a role.
Though the world’s space agenciesespecially NASAare getting better and better at building robots to explore places like Mars, those robots have limitations. Perhaps chief among those limitations is a breakdown. Once a rover on Marsor…
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