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This illustration shows the NASA cryobot concept called Probe using Radioisotopes for Icy Moons Exploration (PRIME) deploying tiny SWIM robots into the ocean miles below a lander on the frozen surface of an ocean world. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Swarm of Cellphone-Size Robots Could Look for Alien Life on Europa or Enceladus

Jul 7, 2022 by News Staff

Someday, dozens of tiny swimming robots could whisk through the water beneath the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus, looking...