Sea Gliders Show Underwater and Off-World Potential

Though NASA's budget for next year cuts research for a probe to plunge into the depths of Europa's suspected ocean the United States Navy might have unwittingly glided to the rescue with an assist from nothing less than the water and gravity of that moon itself.
The budget ax has fallen harshly on NASA's studies on how to explore inner Europa. Lloyd French, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer central to the project, said the team has been disbanded and even the web pages are down.