ECE ANNOUNCMENTS

Wolfgang Fink of
the UA department of electrical and computer engineering has developed
an autonomous robotic lake lander that could be used to explore this
planet and others.

 Fink unveiled the lake lander, named Tucson Explorer II, or TEX II, in a paper titled "Robotic Lake Lander Test Bed for Autonomous Surface and Subsurface Exploration of Titan Lakes," which he presented March 8 at an aerospace conference organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Big Sky, Mont.

Fink presented TEX II as an autonomous exploration vehicle that potentially could be used to explore the lakes of liquid hydrocarbon known to exist on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

TEX II is the second vehicle de...