Dale Andersen's Field Reports

Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 5 November 2024: Evening In Antarctica (Update)

By Keith Cowing

Status Report

Dale Andersen

November 5, 2024

Filed under Analog, Antarctica, Away Team, Dale Andersen, exobiology, expedition, extremophile, Lake Untersee, Limnology, Microbial mat, Novo Station, Novolazarevskaya Station, ROV, SCUBA

Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 5 November 2024: Evening In Antarctica (Update) — Evening at Lake Untersee — Dale Andersen

Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in October-December 2024 for another field season of research (preview). Dale’s work is coordinated through the SETI Institute. We’ll be posting his updates here. You can read about his prior exploits from this field season and past field seasons here.

Keith’s update: Dale just sent me this drone view of Lake Untersee Base Camp.

**Lake Untersee, Antarctica – Drone view – Dale Andersen**

Keith’s note: now that Dale has a Starlink Internet connection we are no longer limited to the tiny files that we have been exchanging all these years for these expedition updates.

I just got a text this afternoon from Dale of the current view of his basecamp at Lake Untersee, Antarctica (sped up). I responded with a short video from my front yard in Reston, Virginia.

Dale: the view this afternoon (Lake Untersee, Antarctica sped up)

Keith: Now (Reston, Virginia USA, normal speed)

Keith: Dale and I have been proving research updates – from Antarctica – since 1996. We think we actually had the first webserver (located in my old condo) updated from Antarctica. More details here: Dale Andersen’s 1996 Antarctic Field Research Photo Albums

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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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