ESA spacewalk instructor Hervé Stevenin carries all sorts of instrumentation, from high-tech spectrometers to NASA replicas from the Apollo era. ESA is assessing if the tools are suitable for future exploration missions.

Pangaea-X is a test campaign that brings together geology, high-tech survey equipment and space exploration. For five days in November 2017, the course mobilised 50 people, four space agencies and 18 organisations in five different locations.

Copyright: ESA– R. Shone November 21, 2017 larger image

Astrobiology

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...