{"id":9269,"date":"2023-04-20T03:18:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T21:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9269"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:47:03","slug":"what-is-the-exobiology-extant-life-surveyor-eels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-exobiology-extant-life-surveyor-eels\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is it?<\/strong> It is a <strong>mobile instrument platform conceived to explore internal terrain structures, assess habitability and ultimately search for evidence of life<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>designed to be adaptable<\/strong> <strong>to traverse ocean-world-inspired terrain<\/strong>, fluidized media, enclosed labyrinthian environments and liquids.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>snake-like robot<\/strong> that that can <strong>move through rough terrain<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Its purpose is to <strong>examine the surface of Saturn&#8217;s moon<\/strong> and determine whether life is present.<\/li>\n<li>EELS <strong>allows for deeper exploration<\/strong> into areas that were once unattainable.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>made of multiple, identical, segments containing both the actuation and propulsion mechanisms<\/strong> as well as <strong>the power and communication electronics<\/strong> to drive them.<\/li>\n<li>EELS uses <strong>first-of-a-kind rotating propulsion units<\/strong> that act as tracks, gripping mechanisms and propeller units underwater, enabling the robot to access a plume vent exit and follow it to its ocean source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0How many moon does Saturn has?<\/h3>\n<p>Saturn has 83 moons. Sixty-three moons are confirmed and named, and another 20 moons are awaiting confirmation of discovery and official naming by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/science\/space\/nasa-develops-snake-like-robot-eels-to-be-deployed-on-saturns-moon-in-search-of-life-articleshow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NASA Develops Snake-like Robot EELS, To Be Deployed On Saturn&#8217;s Moon In Search Of Life\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor  is a snake-like robot that can move through rough terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}