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...
NASA Space Submarine Could Explore Titan's Methane Seas NASA Funds Titan Submarine, Other Far-Out Space Exploration Ideas "We feel that the Titan submarine is kind of a first step before you go do aEuropaorEnceladus" sub mission, Steven Oleson, of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio, sai...
“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...
Titan Submarine: Exploring the Depths of Kraken Mare That idea looks even more tempting now that Grima and his team have publisheda study showing that some of Titan’s seas are almost completely calm. “There is the science motivation to confirm the Titan’s seas are very flat as suggested ...
The missing submarine Titan uses a Logitech game controller to navigate. While some have seized on this as a sign of incompetence, game controllers are actually fairly common in the military. Why? Game controllers are durable, well designed, and almost everyone knows how to use one. As more ...
RUSH: There are roughly five or six. So some of 'em are mothballed. The Mir submersibles [the pair of Russian submersibles that James Cameron used to film "Titanic" scenes] are mothballed; they'll never dive again. The French Nautile submarine doesn't operate very much, but it has ...
Updated maps of Titan, based on the Cassini imaging science subsystem. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute In 2015, NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) awarded a Phase II grant to a proposed robotic submarine in order to further investigate and develop the concept. This submarine exp...
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 ...
Lunine is an expert on Saturn's moons and an interdisciplinary scientist on the Cassini-Huygens mission that discovered methane-ethane seas on Titan. Intrigued by the possibilities of methane-based life on Titan, and armed with a grant from the Templeton Foundation to study non-aqueous life, Lun...