Icefin Deep-Sea Vehicle Has an Eye on Outer Space
An undersea craft practices in the Antarctic for a mission to one of Jupiter’s moons
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Innovators: Britney Schmidt and Mick West (above, right)
Ages: 33 and 48
Physics professor at Georgia Tech, senior research engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute
Form and function
Icefin, a seafaring robotic vehicle, uses specialized materials and modular parts to collect data and video from the floor beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a proxy for the geography of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons.