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From squid-like submarines to bouncing rovers, NASA is never short of a crazy idea or two, and now the agency is looking to explore the potential of using "windbots" to investigate the skies above ...

Among designers of robotic probes to explore the planets, there is certainly no shortage of clever ideas. There are concepts for robots that are propelled by waves in the sea. There are ideas for ...

Among designers of robotic probes to explore the planets, there is certainly no shortage of clever ideas. There are concepts for robots that are propelled by waves in the sea. There are ideas for ...

While recent successes of space exploration have been able to show us celestial bodies of rocky terrain, our solar system neighbour Jupiter is a violent, gassy behemoth, and one day windbots might be ...

Turbulence is often a problem for aircraft. NASA researchers, however, are now thinking it might be just the way to power probes sent to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Michael Franco Freelancer Michael ...

As part of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, the Jet Propulsion Lab at NASA is looking into using a ‘windbot’ to harness the power of Jupiter’s ...

An artist's rendering of a theoretical windbot. The potential new class of robots could someday explore gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. (Credit: NASA) Cosmic landers are the go-to technology to ...

Nasa's Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photo: Bloomberg Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) is investigating the feasibility ...

This artist's illustration depicts a NASA "windbot" soaring through the skies of Jupiter, powering itself by the planet's powerful winds. The polyhedron design shown here is a notional concept that ...

NASA is investigating the feasibility of creating a windbot, a robotic probe designed to stay aloft in a planet’s atmosphere for a long time, to explore gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. Engineers ...

NASA is looking into a wild idea to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter or other gas giants using a robotic spacecraft designed to sail across extraterrestrial skies. The so-called "windbot" is the ...