Away Teams & Field Reports

Astronauts Use Tricorders And Geology Tools During ESA Away Team Training

By Keith Cowing

Status Report

ESA

January 5, 2024

Filed under Alexander Gerst, Away Team, ESA, ESA PANGEA, Field Trip, geology, NASA, spectrometer, Stephanie Wilson, tricorder

Astronauts Use Tricorders And Geology Tools During ESA Away Team Training — Tricorders And Geology Tools — ESA

While NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson has created a small trench to analyze with a portable spectrometer some levels of now-buried rock deposits, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst looks for more clues for the science team.

Credits: ESA / A. Romeo Larger image

Astrobiology, Away Team, Tricorder,

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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