Cryobot
A cryobot is a probe that melts through ice to explore it and underlying media.
The artificial word Kryobot is made up of the words Kryos ( Gr .: The cold) and Robots (derived from Czech .: Work) and thus roughly means ice robot or ice probe .
So far, cryobots have only existed in theoretical considerations and as isolated first prototypes. So far, these prototypes have only reached a depth of a few decades. Planned areas of application are primarily the exploration of the ice depths and underlying waters of the Arctic and Antarctic and, in the more distant future, the exploration of Mars and the icy moons of the outer solar system . The investigation of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus should be considered, under whose ice sheets liquid salt water can be assumed as potential habitats for extraterrestrial life .
The original cryobot is the so-called Philberth probe , which was invented by the German physicist Karl Philberth and was first demonstrated in the 1960s at the International Glaciological Greenland Expedition ( EGIG ) with a drilling depth of over 1000 meters.