News Articles with Category: NASA Project: SIMPLE
January 15, 2015 – via Georgia Tech Research Institute
Icefin is an autonomous underwater vehicle. The researchers drill a hole through the ice, then send the submersible down into the ocean. Once it’s in the water, it collects information about the ocean below the ice and what the underside of the ice shelf looks like.
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January 15, 2015 – via Stone Aerospace
The ARTEMIS vehicle – a heavily morphed long-range, low drag variant of the highly successful 4-degree-of-freedom hovering sub-ice ENDURANCE bot — will be deployed from a sea-ice drill hole adjacent the McMurdo Ice Shelf (MIS)
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January 15, 2015 – via University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The robot, known as Deep-SCINI (Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging), is designed to run deeper than previous missions under the leading edge of the Antarctic ice shelf.
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January 15, 2015 – via Georgia Tech
Sub-Ice Marine and PLanetary-analog Ecosytems (SIMPLE)
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