Away Teams & Field Reports

ESA Offworld Astronaut Cave Exploration Training

By Keith Cowing

Status Report

ESA

October 4, 2025

Filed under Analog, astronaut, AwayTeam, cave, ESA, Exploration, Jasmin Moghbeli, MBRSC, Mohammad AlMulla, NASA, spelunking

ESA Offworld Astronaut Cave Exploration Training — Credits: ESA / V.Crobu — ESA Larger image

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli took pictures of MBRSC astronaut Mohammad AlMulla while he was conducting a microbiological investigation close to the underground base camp in Abel Cave.

Astrobiology, spelunking,

Keith Cowing

Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻

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