NASA researchers have said that at some point, Windbots could study the atmosphere of Jupiter. It has been reported that these extraordinary vehicles would pass through the dense and turbulent gases, which exist close to the big world. The vehicles would be bobbing through the atmosphere, rather than flying.

As per reports, an award of $100,000 has been given by Nasa's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program in the direction of research into these designs that could be ground-breaking for robotic explorers. The agency is looking forward to Windbots to come up with new findings regarding the unexplored planet.

So far, four planets of our solar system i.e. Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, have never been studied by spacecrafts. This is for the reason that each of these huge worlds consists of a huge, dense atmosphere that is accountable for most of their sizable radius. At the moment, it is not possible to send a spacecraft on the solid core of a huge planet that is located deep under the surface of the atmosphere.

According to Adrian Stoica, principal investigator for windbots research at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "One could imagine a network of windbots existing for quite a long time on Jupiter or Saturn, sending information about ever- changing weather patterns. And, of course, what we learn about the atmospheres of other planets enriches our understanding of Earth's own weather and climate".

Many difficulties are faced by atmospheric vehicle designers, when they develop vehicles that are able to stay for long period in the air of such worlds.