NASA’s EELS Robot to Look For Alien Life on Saturn’s Icy Moon

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a self propelled autonomous robot snake designed to explore extreme extraterrestrial terrain. Its first of a kind propulsion system means it can boldly go where no robot snake has gone before.

The robotic snake is called an Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor or EELS and was inspired by a desire to look for life deep in Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.