NASA JPL Developing Underwater Robots to Venture Deep Below Polar Ice

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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2024

On a remote patch of the windy, frozen Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California huddled together, peering down a narrow hole in a thick layer of sea ice. Below them, a cylindrical robot gathered test science data in the frigid ocean, connected by a tether to the tripod that had lowered it through the borehole. This test gave engin

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