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Thursday, July 23, 2015

NASA wants to explore Jupiter with wind-powered robot spacecrafts

NASA scientists, desperate to explore Jupiter and other planets with no solid surface to speak of, have figured out a way to overcome the challenges of those gas giants. Wind-powered robots, called ‘windbots’, are the way to go, according to a team of engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Unlike solar-powered and nuclear-powered vessels, which simply wouldn’t work in the atmosphere of far-flung planets like Jupiter, a semi-autonomous craft that could derive its energy from the native turbulence would be perfect. And NASA is spending $100,000 to find out if the theory can be put into practice.