Away Teams & Field Reports
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Tricorder Tech: ESA CAVES 2026 Cavenauts Use An Electronic FieldBook

by Keith Cowing

Astronauts Tracy Dyson (NASA), Rosemary Coogan (ESA) and Ayu Yoneda (JAXA) measuring water parameters and recording them in the Electronic FieldBook during ESA CAVES2026 course.

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Lipid Biomarkers In Microbialites From A Maar Lake: An Astrobiological Study Of Biomarker Preservation under Mars Analog Conditions

by Keith Cowing

Lipids constitute resistant biomarkers that have been proposed as pacemakers in the search for possible microbial life-forms in Mars’ past.

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Away Team Mission: NASA, USGS Scientists Go Rock Hounding in California’s High Desert

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: when it comes to conducting field trips – sorties – Away Team missions – on another world, astrogeology and astrobiology and astrochemistry overlap with one another all the […]

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Planetary Genomics: Basecamp Research Launches The Trillion Gene Atlas

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: If we aspire to mount expeditions to new worlds and then embrace the task of characterizing and quantifying whatever life forms we find, the ability to map and […]

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