Away Teams & Field Reports

Away Team Training: Tricorder Use During Cave Microbiology Assay

By Keith Cowing

Status Report

ESA

December 10, 2025

Filed under Abel Cave, Analog, astronaut, Away Team, cave, ESA, Exploration, Jasmin Moghbeli, Mohammad AlMulla, spelunking, tricorder

Away Team Training: Tricorder Use During Cave Microbiology Assay — larger image Credits: ESA / V.Crobu

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

Astrobiology, Away Team, spelunking,

Keith Cowing

Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member 🖖🏻

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