NASA space submarine to travel through oceans on Titan

Are you a fan of science fiction series like 'Star Trek' and 'Sea Quest'? If yes, here comes exciting news for you. The US space agency NASA is developing a space submarine to explore liquid oceans on Titan, one of Saturn's moons.

According to NASA, Titan is the only other body in the solar system besides Earth that has liquid oceans on its surface. Instead of water, these oceanic bodies contain liquid hydrocarbons such as oil or gas.

However, an initial proposal was to send a boat to explore the seas of Titan.

"If you only explored our ocean with a boat, you would miss out on a heck of a lot of stuff. The Titan submarine would serve as a pathfinder for even more exotic future subsurface exploration of oceans in space," Steven Oleson from NASA's Glenn Research Centre told science magazine New Scientist.

The space submarine, part of NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), should be able to communicate from beneath the waves. Interestingly, this exploration, planned by NASA, seems like a science fiction is shaping into a reality.