Scientists have created a system to study the seabed using a mobile laboratory on a drone. In this respect informs SETI Institute.
The laser system was named InVADER (“In-Situ Hydrothermal Vent Analysis Diving Bot”). It is based on the underwater autonomous platform Hercules. In particular, they will be able to identify marine minerals and catalog living organisms.
“Our technology will revolutionize oceanography as digital cameras revolutionize film photography. Scientists no longer need to collect and send samples to the lab and wait weeks for results. InVADER will do this in just a few hours and with zero environmental impact. “This approach will allow scientists to learn about the ocean much faster, which is essential to protecting it,” said project leader Pablo Sobron.
If successful, such technologies could be used to explore watery worlds in the solar system such as Europa and Enceladus. Inside these moons is an ocean of liquid water, which astrobiologists believe is the most suitable place for the origin of life in the solar system other than Earth.
The drone is based on an advanced laser spectroscopy complex that allows for the first time ultra-high precision remote laser Raman spectroscopy as well as laser fluorescence spectroscopy to be performed on the seabed.
The authors plan to make several dives and create maps of the chemical composition of the bottom during an experimental expedition planned in May. These maps will include data on mineral resources and microbial metabolism at the bottom.
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