NASA To Develop Underwater Drones To Hunt Aliens In Other Planets' Oceans

Other planets and satellites have characteristics that, like Earth, may be able to culture and harbor living creatures. One of the many factors would be the existence of liquid oceans. And it is highly possible that aliens could be inhabiting oceans.

And since these oceans cannot be advisable for close contact with humans, NASA scientists have come up with a plan on how they could examine what lies under these outer space oceans. According to The Sun, scientists from NASA, Caltech, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Remote Sensing Solutions, and Monterey Bay Aquarium Institute are currently working on underwater "submarine drones" that could be used for further research on oceans in other moons and planets.

Through this underwater system, no stationary space workers are needed on the location. As per reports, the underwater drones will be installed to certain planetary oceans and a satellite office or laboratory will be focusing on the status of these waters. And since no human contact can be possible, these drones will be specially designed for such temperature and composition, News18 reports.

These drones will basically check and observe the change that will happen in the oceans, from temperature, to density, to substance, composition, and eventually for abnormal movements, reports The Inquisitr. According to the report, the priority areas to check could be Jupiter's moon Europa, Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus, and Pluto's "icy heart" Sputnik Planitia.

Water is one of the major factors which indicates that life forms can exist. And since these planets and moons have their own oceans, there is a huge possibility that a life form of their own could tolerate the properties of these waters and be able to live. With the use of these breakthrough underwater drones, NASA and other scientists could leap a big step closer to finding alien life in space.