Nasa reveals the underwater alien hunting robot set to go to Europa to look for life
Channel: Aliens insider
Date: 2015-06-28

Nasa reveals the underwater alien hunting robot set to go to Europa to look for life
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It could be the rover that finds life on another planet.

Nasa has revealed its undersea rover has been scouring an aquarium in LA before being blasted off to Europa.

There, it is hoped the small craft could scour the giant oceans to look for signs of life.
Provisionally called the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration (BRUIE), this rover would normally float and have wheels. 

Its wheels would roll along on the underside of ice, as if the ice were the ground. 

Operating underwater, the rover would take images and collect other data to help scientists understand the important interface between ice and water.

For now, it was placed at the bottom of this 188,000-gallon aquatic tank, a bright orange garibaldi fish seemed to ignore a new visitor to the aquatic wonderland: the silver body of an under-ice rover.

The rover's presence 24 feet (7.3 meters) underwater at the science center this week helped researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, test the innovative rover's systems.