NASA has developed an AI-powered robot that searches for alien lifeforms in its quest to find hospitable territory in outer space and galactic signs of life.
While scientists investigate how to colonise Mars, icy moons in the Milky Way such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus, have also been earmarked as possible hot property. These moons, dubbed “ocean worlds”, are made up of mostly ice and are thought to have vast oceans of flowing water beneath their frozen surface layer.
The space agency has begun several initiatives that will see robotic alien hunters comb the surfaces of these ocean worlds largely independent of human direction.
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