New Rovers: A Robot Eel and a Submarine!

NASA’s looking to send a giant robotic space eel to explore Europa, and a submarine to Titan. Let’s go for a swim!

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[AlterBridgeSaint]

That robotic eel looks like tasty Europan squid food!

[tommcdonald]

An eel and a methane submarine! I have now lived to see sci-fi come to life in ways I had hoped for as a kid reading pulps. I can almost smell the newsprint and see the great, garish pictures. I want that comic book!

[CaptNSquared]

I like the idea that there is intelligent life on Europa we don't know about, and somehow the robot eel becomes some sort of god in there culture. Then in a few hundred years we meet this life and they find out the eel was just a robot we made.

[VintageLJ]

It would be cool if they livestreamed these missions from the mission control, so that everyone can see, analyze and work on the information recieved.

[Goldenkitten]

*Drop eel probe in*
*Giant space Kraken eats it five minutes later*
*NASA shrugs and blames it on budget cuts*

[trioct]

Oh NASA. You always come up with the best, weirdest inventions...

[Teacuppe]

Giant Robot Eel!?! I don't think I've ever been prouder to be a patron of this show :D

[GeorgePerakis]

So you're basically telling me that Titan has huge seas of *oil* on it? Sounds like Titan needs some *democracy*. I'll go ahead and load up the heat-seeking freedom....

[mikeharrington]

I hope I'll still be alive when this happens.

[TheDajamster]

I can just imagine the news from NASA when *something* swallows their Europa Eel.

[DigitalFumbles]

We're gonna throw a submarine into a lake of fart?

...Awesome.

[PogieJoe]

I'm so excited about this! The magnetic field charge concept is brilliant!

[XxMrPrGamrxX]

Hey Scishow! Please don't stop making videos <3

[Bram]

my submarine is full of robot eels


no? anyone? okay

[GuyWithAnAmazingHat]

I hope they make the eel look as tasty as possible, it needs to attract attention from anything that lives there.

[MatthewCampbell]

One day, in the future, there will be a civilization that reveres the "Sacred Metal Eel, messenger of the gods".

[SaintShinobi]

Not that it has to do anything with the cool science in the video but damn Catilin is looking great.

[culwin]

A robotic tentacled eel on Europa, sounds like the start of an anime.

[Diceyed]

we find another robo eel in there that turns out an alien version of NASA was also using to explore Europa.

[sizanogreen]

Kraken Mare... I as a KSP player find this name absolutely awesome! ^^