Astronauts and Explorers

ESA CAVES 2025 Away Team Training: Downloading Data Underground

By Keith Cowing

Status Report

ESA

January 20, 2026

Filed under Abel Cave, astronaut, Away Team, cave, ESA, ESA CAVES, JAXA, Makoto Suwa, Marco Sieber, spelunking, tricorder

ESA CAVES 2025 Away Team Training: Downloading Data Underground — Credits: ESA / V.Crobu — ESA — larger image

ESA astronaut Marco Sieber and JAXA astronaut Makoto Suwa are downloading data from environmental instruments placed at the underground base camp in Abel Cave.

Astrobiology, Astrogeology,

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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