article_snippet.sent: The technologies developed for Icefin will also help in the search for life on other planets, namely Europa, a moon of Jupiter.
article_snippet.sent: Icefin was deployed (and retrieved)
article_snippet.sent: Icefin was deployed as a part of the Sub Ice Marine and Planetary–analog Ecosystem (SIMPLE) program, funded by NASA and supported by NSF, with Schmidt as the principle investigator.
article_snippet.sent: Icefin is planned to make Icefin Arctic debut in summer 2016, with a return to Antarctica that fall, A team of scientists and engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology hopes .
article_snippet.sent: At McMurdo Station, Schmidt and a team including Georgia Tech scientists and engineers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), led by principal research engineer Mick West, deployed Icefin to explore the underside of the ice shelves flowing off the continent. '
article_snippet.sent: What truly separates Icefin from some of the other vehicles is that it's fairly slender, yet still has all of the sensors that the scientists like Britney need,' principal research engineer Mick West said.
article_snippet.sent: Icefin was deployed (and retrieved)
article_snippet.sent: Icefin is capable of diving 1,500 meters and can perform three-kilometer-long surveys.
article_snippet.sent: Previous vehicles in Icefin's class were rated to a few hundred meters. '
article_snippet.sent: A partnership between research-focused GTRI and academic-focused School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) enabled the team to design, build and deploy Icefin under the ice in less than a year.
article_snippet.sent: the team had to design for a number of challenges associated with deploying Icefin in such an extreme environment.
article_snippet.sent: Icefin carries forward and up/down imaging and sonars and several different sensors.
article_snippet.sent: Icefin is also modular, similar to vehicles used on space missions.
article_snippet.sent: Traditional GPS does not work under the ice, so Icefin uses a navigation system called SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) to triangulate Traditional GPS position based on measuring the range and bearing of features on the seafloor or under the ice.
article_snippet.sent: Icefin fills the gap between these two kinds of vehicles: able to be deployed easily by small teams in any environment, yet still able to record oceanographic information traditionally done by much larger vehicles. '
article_snippet.sent: Traditional GPS does not work under the ice, so Icefin uses a navigation system called SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) to triangulate Traditional GPS position based on measuring the range and bearing of features on the seafloor or under the ice. '
article_snippet.sent: Using algorithms such as SLAM allows us to construct a map of the unknown under-ice environment. '
article_snippet.sent: The sensors on Icefin are helping scientists understand how the ocean affects properties of the ice, and how the ice affects properties of the ocean.