Mars is not our Only Hope for Finding Life

This article discusses a technology that is not applicable to Mars, but it is very interesting. It is DEPTHX, a deep sea probe. This probe has the possibility of going off-planet to explore oceanic places like Jupiter's moon, Europa. What is very extraordinary about the probe is that it is completely autonomous. It uses its own sonar and radar to build a map that it can use itself to navigate deep underwater. The probe also has an appendage for grasping things of interest and moving them into one of its holding tanks for further research. A microscope and camera are onboard to allow DEPTHX to do its own investigations. The probe cannot currently look for life, but researchers intend to add such features to any version leaving Earth. We may fail to find life on Mars, but researchers are quite hopeful about other places in the solar system.