LEAP – Legged Exploration Across the Plume

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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)

Artist concept highlighting the novel approach proposed by the 2025 NIAC awarded selection of LEAP – Legged Exploration Across the Plume.

NASA/Justin Yim

Justin Yim
University of Illinois

We propose Legged Exploration Across the Plume (LEAP), based on the Salto jumping robot as a novel multi-jet robotic sampling concept for Enceladus to be deployed from Enceladus Orbilander.