• NASA is investing US$600,000 in a study that will look into the feasibility of sending tiny machine swimmers.
• These robots will be tiny triangular chocks.
• The plan is to use a probe to make a 25cm-wide hole to get to the ocean.

According to NASA, it will send swimming robots to our solar system’s “ocean worlds”; to investigate what lurks beneath the ice surfaces of several planets and moons. The space agency will spend US$600,000 on a feasibility study of the robots; to see if deploying small machine swimmers is feasible.

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These, however, won’t resemble humanoids at all. These little triangular chocks will be the robots.

In addition to the fact that “ocean worlds” have a lot of water; scientists are particularly interested in them because the chemical interactions between the water and the rocks; may support the emergence of life. The environment in the ocean can resemble Earth quite a bit.

One such world is Pluto, although the closest bodies; are Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

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