Relevant Mission: NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts A conceptual design of a submersible autonomous vehicle (submarine) to explore extraterrestrial seas. Specifically, to send a submarine to Titan's largest northern sea, Kraken Mare. This craft will autonomously carry out detailed scientific investigations...
(Image credit: NASA/NIAC) COCOA BEACH, Fla. — The extraterrestrial seas of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, provide an ideal world for a robotic submarine to explore, and a team of scientists is working on an innovative mission concept that could make that vision a reality. A submarine on...
(Image credit: NASA Glenn/NIAC) A submarine could explore alien seas just a few decades from now. Researchers have been crafting a concept mission that would send a submarine to Saturn's huge moon Titan, which sports lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons on its frigid surface. Such a miss...
“uw, local company building innovative deep-sea manned submarine,” read one headline from october 2013. the story was updated with a note in 2023 saying that “the vessel that resulted from this partnership” was the cyclops 1 . emails from oceangate leaked exclusively to wired indicate that...
Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud onSaturn’s largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane. Cornell astronomers have estimated that the sea to be at least 1,000 feet (300 meters) deep near its center – enough room for a potentialrobotic submari...
Winters recalled a time, about two years ago, when he was at OceanGate’s headquarters on the Everett Marina to check on one of the two submersibles in the Coast Guard’s records. He said he saw the three subs on a barge, and someone told him, “We finally got our submarine to go ...
atmosphere, and because it has lakes, rivers, and oceans on its surface. But unlike Earth, these features are made of liquid methane rather than water. The amount of liquid means that Titan could even be a place to look for signs of life, and there is interest insending a submarine ...