NASA robot dives into old lava crater

January 12, 2015 18:25

Space may be vast, but the planets can be pretty cramped -- especially when it comes to volcanoes. This is unfortunate because the difficult to navigate fissures that are a major volcanic feature contain clues as to the interior of planets and moons and the mechanisms that formed them.

To help learn more, NASA is dropping miniature robots down crevices inaccessible to humans as a way of extracting information about volcanoes on and off the earth.

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