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Creating a robot lander capable of finding life?

What are essential items needed for a lander in Europa?

As far as I know, the only place where there’s believed to be a possibility of life on Europa will be in the oceans underneath the ice, which means you’ll have to be able to drill through 10-30 km of ice. If you want to take underwater photos, you’ll need a light source. Obviously, your lander will need to be able to function underwater. You’ll want to be able to dive deep, measure water temperature, take samples to measure salinity and other materials in the water, and examine samples for signs of microbial life. I recommend some form of spectroscopy to identify the materials you’re looking at, high-resolution photography, and some sort of microscopic photography system, unless you intend to actually try to bring samples back to Earth.

After you collect data, there’s the trouble of getting it back to Earth. Usually, landers send signals back to Earth with the images and data they collect, but that might be troublesome through the ice, unless you either have a very, very strong signal, or a way to drill back up.

I hope that was helpful!

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