InVADER Mission to Test its Robotic Laser Divebot on a Deep-Sea Expedition

InVADER Mission to Test its Robotic Laser Divebot on a Deep-Sea Expedition Team to test technologies for use in future planetary exploration while providing data to survey deep-sea ecosystems and minerals on Earth PRESS RELEASE DATE May 11, 2023 CONTACT... More

InVADER Mission to Test its Robotic Laser Divebot on a Deep-Sea Expedition Team to test technologies for use in future planetary exploration while providing data to survey deep-sea ecosystems and minerals on Earth PRESS RELEASE DATE May 11, 2023 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications, SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org Underwater Volcano. Image credit: InVADER. May 11, 2023, Mountain View, CA – A team of scientists and engineers from the SETI Institute, Impossible Sensing, NASA JPL, and other institutions will test their innovative robotic laser system on a deep-sea expedition aboard the E/V Nautilus. The mission, called InVADER (In-situ Vent Analysis Divebot for Exobiology Research), aims to advance technologies to explore, characterize and sample the seabed here on Earth. In particular, InVADER’s Laser Divebot will find marine minerals and catalog biodiversity in the seabed faster and more affordably than ever. “Our technology will revolutionize oceanography like digital Less