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Robots Searching for Life on Saturn’s Moon with Matt Travers
Season 15 · Episode 48

Robots Searching for Life on Saturn’s Moon with Matt Travers

Could we use robots to explore the oceans of Enceladus? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Harrison Greenbaum dive deep into the EELS Project, sending a snake-like robot to Enceladus with Matthew Travers, a roboticist at the Biorobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University.

StarTalk Radio · Neil deGrasse Tyson, Harrison Greenbaum, Matthew Travers

August 20, 202435m 59s

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Could we use robots to explore the oceans of Enceladus? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Harrison Greenbaum dive deep into the EELS Project, sending a snake-like robot to Enceladus with Matthew Travers, a roboticist at the Biorobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University.

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