It's a deep Phreatic thermal explorer, or "DepthX" for short.
Its proving ground right now is a local quarry.
And there are big plans for its future.
If everything went according the plan we would launch around 2017.
It would be at Europa by 2018... and by 2019 for certain we'd know whether there's life off Earth.
That's the game.
DepthX is the brainchild of engineer Bill Stone.
He and a team of scientists have staked their reputations on it.
They spent 6 years developing the concept and building the prototype.
It's part of an ambitious project that would see it carried into space, sent through 6 miles of ice and into Europa's ocean.
To divide it down into all the various vehicles, you have a a parent vehicle which takes you to orbit around the moon Europa.
There would be a lander... that would land on the ice, then there's a second stage of the lander which melts its way from 3 to 5 kilometers of ice cap and then at that point you kick out the 3rd stage.
We need a fast moving device, that would be sort of torpedo-shaped, most likely nuclear propelled.
And that would drive for thousands of kilometers around the central ocean of Europa.
Is that really feasible?
NASA thinks so.
The space agency is onboard with the money and its blessing, an investment in the search for life.
If life exists on Jupiter's moon Europa, could it walk, talk or fly?
It would be little viruses or no, maybe a best bacteria?
We would expect only to see primitive life forms.
But they might be some other things that we see on Earth, we just don't know.
Scientists are encouraged by the discovery of strange and hardy lifeforms found in the most inhospitable places on Earth.
Tube worms, for example, survive and thrive in total darkness.
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