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Ice Mole melting a path for itself
through a glacier in Switzerland.
Credit: FH Aachen

Once the technology allows a robot like
Ice Mole to melt through miles of ice,
swim miles to the sea floor, and send data
through the sea up to the orbiter, it could
look something like this. This is the robot
explorer, Hercules, looking down at some
carbonate spires of the Lost City hydrothermal field. Credit: IFE, URI-IAO, UW,
Lost City Science Party, and NOAA

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