/01/2005) About us Products Contact Home | Contact News: Stone provides seminar on Deep Cave Exploration and Planetary Life Exploration to Google at Google Headquarters 27 August... life beneath the ice cap of that Jovian moon. DEPTHX has two principal objectives: First, to develop and test in an appropriate environment the ability for an un-tethered robot... for the existence of microbial life, to command an autonomous maneuvering platform to move to those locations, conduct localized searches, and to autonomously collect microbial...

as a prototype of the Europa lander third stage that will search for microbial life beneath the ice cap of that Jovian moon. DEPTHX has two principal objectives: First, to develop...; and second, to demonstrate that silicon intelligence can identify likely zones for the existence of microbial life, to command an autonomous maneuvering platform to move to those... locations, conduct localized searches, and to autonomously collect microbial life in an aqueous environment. The concept and prototypes will be tested in an unusual terrestrial analog...

vehicles, re-entry vehicles, novel spacecraft architectures, propulsion, structures and dynamics, manned systems, closed-cycle life support, spacesuit PLSS and spacecraft ECLSS systems...

maneuvering in true 3D but also of creating its own 3D maps of newly explored terrain and navigating home on those just-created maps. DEPTHX also has a sophisticated hierarchical life... probability for the presence of sub-aqueous microbiological life and the initiation of an in-situ sample collection on that basis. Planetary Exploration Goal: Develop the DEep...