"I think it is important to emphasize how multidisciplinary this project is," Cassius Tunis, who is an undergraduate at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a co-author on the study, told in an email. "To take this prototype to an actual space instrument will involve a number of steps common to most space instrumentation, including testing performance under the relevant extreme conditions (cold and low pressure or vacuum) and ensuring it will survive the rigors of spaceflight." Christopher Carr, who is an assistant professor in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a co-author on the study, told in an email. "Our next steps are to further characterize and improve the melter to better understand and optimize its performance," Dr. NASA has a life-detecting instrument ready to fly to Europa or Enceladusįor the time being, MSIS remains in the lab, but the researchers are already thinking of future designs for this unique ice processing device.
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