• By charliejane
    Dec 21, 2007 11:00 AM 302
    read more: #robots, #mcmurdo, #antarctica, #ice, #scienceporn, #underwater

    A Robot's Vision of Antarctica's Undersea Kingdom

    This looks like a rocket entering a wormhole, but it's actually a robot camera designed to function on the ocean floor under the Anatarctic ice. The Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) can fit through a hole in the ice as small as 15 cm. Similar cameras could one day probe a buried ocean on Saturn's moon for unknown life forms. Click through to see the sea life under the polar ice.

    Image of camera by Elisfanclub Undersea image by SCINI.


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