NASA wants to land on Jupiter robot-dandelion Bashny.Net

Jupiter and Saturn are two of the least explored planets in our Solar system. Being gas giants, they do not have surfaces on which to plant research unit, and their atmospheres are constantly raging hard storms.



In 1995, the descent probe Galileo spacecraft, designed to study Jupiter and its moons, entered the atmosphere of the gas giant and after one hour had disappeared. In 2016, the space Agency NASA will make another attempt to land on the orbit of Jupiter research unit. The probe, which is to continue the mission begun by Galileo, called Juno. Also like its predecessor, the Juno will try to find out whether Jupiter has a rocky core.

Saturn also studied by flyby trajectory one missions and one orbital system. However, to get detailed information about this scientist and failed. To do this, the probe needs to fly through the clouds and track the weather mode. That this will and the so-called mindbody ("windbot") — future spacecraft to study the gaseous planets.

Today vindbot – only a concept. NASA experts are not yet sure how exactly it will look in the camera and how it will function. However, some ideas they already have. On the idea of the robot will be in the gas giant's atmosphere without using balloons or wings. Instead, he will receive a moving section that will govern the direction of flight, like the fluffy seeds of the dandelion.

The device will draw energy for charging their batteries due to turbulence in gas flows. The principle of operation is similar to the charging of wrist watches from the shaking hand, said in a press release NASA.

The development and testing of prototype robot dandelion NASA has allocated $ 100 thousand.

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