New u-boat with the engine at a nuclear power plant will go on the sea of Titanium. NASA plans to send a fully Autonomous submarine on Saturn's moon by 2040.
Unusual submarine designed for hydrocarbon seas on Titan, a moon of Saturn. Engineers from the Institute of promising concepts NASA presented at the Symposium held in Florida.
Itself submarine similar to the orbital plane Boeing X-37. Its task in the seas of Titan will be designed for 90 days. The boat should be completely Autonomous and to transmit the acquired data to the Ground each time floating on the sea surface. Research project among other things aggravated by the fact that the hydrocarbons around submarine engines most likely will just boil that creates problems to the creators.
The boat will be sent to one of the 3 seas Titanium - sea Kraken. It is the largest one, about 400 thousand square km. it even has tides in consequence of the attraction of Saturn. In order to save the boat will pass the signals to the satellite, and once on the Ground, tells The Daily Mail. To send such an unusual vehicle in the space has become the necessity of studying sea Kraken, and the search for prebiotic compounds, i.e. chemical process that formed life on Earth and how did evolution.
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