Practicing For Offworld Away Team Missions: Astrogeology And Astrobiology On Lanzarote, Canary Islands
A spacewalker explores the barren and dry landscape of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands to simulate a planetary mission.– ESA
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
