Today: Uncovering the secrets of the Antarctic. Tomorrow...Europa! | Matt Meister | TEDxPeachtree

Matt Meister is a trained engineer but he is really an explorer at heart. In this talk, he shows us the underwater drone that is gathering the information needed to get us ready to explore if there is life on Europa, a moon of Jupiter!

Matt is the lead engineer of Icefin, a NASA-funded project at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Icefin is designed to survey and map the surface environment in polar regions such as
Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf (RIS). Matt developed Icefin’s initial mechanical design while still an undergraduate and

[bruced]

Our smartest people are trying to escape. We're screwed.

[JacquiChew]

The Antarctic as training wheels to find life on a moon of Jupiter. Interesting concept.

[machinegunkely]

This video was recorded 4 years ago did you find anything new with your new radar scanner?? I don't think so

[imacrapschick]

Why couldn’t we use a heat disk to melt a tunnel into the ice instead of a drill??? Make it where the liquid is evaporated in the form of steam or brought up like a dentist suction tube does water from your mouth?? I see it in my mind but, not an engineer here. It just seems like it would be a lot less “stuff” to carry and use if you used a type of melting instead of drill tubes. That way you take samples thru the suction tube when you’re done and send your camera down the hole and done. All you would need is a suction hose, a generator, electrical wire, a heat disc and a vacuum. Then, your camera and sample equipment. Hmmm, I might have to get my teenager to figure this one out and design it for a school wants to be a robotics engineer so, his room is practically a robotics lab...Well, more like Frankenstein’s messy not brave enough to try and clean up that place without back-up!!!! LOL.

[sunmanpatoo]

Design your ice drill machine after the "mythological" Shamir worm and the pinecones.

[RasMerkabah]

If flying planes "drift" with the Atmosphere at nearly 1, 000 MPH East to West with the Earth's 24 hour rotation...why doesn't my Frisbee "drift" when I throw it?

[bruced]

Hey why not send humanoid robots to these planets. The don't need food or water so they can bring more equipment. Send a mini nuclear reactor for energy. They may even be able to deploy satellites along the way to boost signals back and forth. They could even build habitats before sending people.

[juanzamora]

More money for nasa to send their astronauts in a sardine can.