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Inchworming Probe for Planetary Exploration

Posted by michael on from the worms-drill-in-the-worms-drill-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Honeybee Robotics, a firm in New York's Little Italy, has designed a probe that can inchworm deep into the Martian crust or Europan ice shell without a cable to the surface for power or data. Totally autonomous. It's based on a system the company designed to weld steampipes below Manhattan. It's also just really cool."

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  1. mmm hot bit? by ash2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This sort of technology could be used to take 'pure' samples of things like the ice caps to check for life buried deep below.

    As in the past the deep ice cores were contaminated with lubricant which lead to several fake ET lifeforms.