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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 11 January 2026: Overland Traverse To Lake Untersee (Update)

by Keith Cowing

Update: Dale and his team are now at Lake Untersee at S 71.260082° E 13.506017° at an elevation of 2,645 ft. Picture below. Dale Andersen and his team are now […]

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 9 January 2026: Building Our New Storage Facility

by Keith Cowing

Hi Keith, we had another busy day moving and sorting gear. We hope to wrap that up tomorrow, and if everything comes together, we will head out on the traverse […]

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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen’s Antarctic Field Report: 5 January 2026: Preparing to Leave Cape Town For The Ice

by Keith Cowing

Keith The team and all of our gear and cargo made it to Cape Town, which feels especially welcoming right now—warm, bright, and easy to settle into. Over Table Mountain, […]

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Tricorder Tech For Everyone: NASA’s STELLA Open Science Instrument

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: NASA has just authored a paper on a new way for people with a wide variety of interests to use – and build – sensor technology that is […]

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Recent Production Rates Of Cosmogenic Nuclides In The Igneous Rocks of Jezero Crater Floor, Mars

by Keith Cowing

The Perseverance rover has collected rock samples from the floor of Jezero crater, Mars, set to be returned to Earth through the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. These surface rocks […]

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Mars Orbital Recon: Possible Sulfate Deposits In West Melas Chasma

by Keith Cowing

Melas Chasma is the widest segment of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the Solar System. In this region, hydrated sulfate salts have been detected, and are found extensively throughout […]

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Subsurface Life On Earth As A Key To Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries

by Keith Cowing

The first forms of life on Earth were microbial, preceding the evolution of multicellular life by more than two billion years.

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A Slash Across Layered Deposits At Mars’ North Pole

by Keith Cowing

Here, a straight-line feature cuts across many layers, seemingly changing their brightness and presumably indicating a major change in the layer properties.

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Tricorder Tech: NASA Goddard Instrument Away Team On Hawaii

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: This story is adapted from content originally published on NASA social media accounts in September 2022.

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On The Divergent Evolution Of Io And Europa As Primordial Ocean Worlds

by Keith Cowing

Galilean moons exhibit a decrease in bulk density with distance from Jupiter, which may reflect differences in evolutionary paths and water loss.

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