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ESA Away Team Training: Land of Fire – Lanzarote, Canary Islands

by Keith Cowing

A crew of astronauts explored the barren and dry landscape of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands in 2017 to simulate a planetary mission. The trip started with a visit to […]

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Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140 b with JWST/NIRISS

by Keith Cowing

LHS 1140 b is the second-closest temperate transiting planet to the Earth with an equilibrium temperature low enough to support surface liquid water.

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Self-propelling Oxygen Decline In Earth’s Ancient Oceans

by Keith Cowing

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have made significant strides in understanding ancient ocean anoxia, with potential insights for today’s marine environments.

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Astrobiology Expedition To Lake Untersee, Antarctica: Genome-resolved Metagenomics Reveals Diverse Taxa And Metabolic Complexity

by Keith Cowing

Lake Untersee, a lake in Antarctica that is perennially covered with ice, is home to unique microbial structures that are not lithified.

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The Ocean World Droid Power Source You Were Looking For

by Keith Cowing

When it comes to mapping new territory, NASA’s record swamps Lewis and Clark’s. And the space agency doesn’t only chart other stars and planets – a vantage point from space […]

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The First Recorded Hard Substrate Sessile Benthic Community Far Beneath an Antarctic Ice ShelfFrontiers in Marine Science

by Keith Cowing

The seafloor beneath floating ice shelves accounts roughly a third of the Antarctic’s 5 million km2 of continental shelf.

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Preserving Our Home World’s Cryosphere: World Meteorological Organization

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: The Astrobiology community is all excited about two missions that wil; explore the ice worlds orbiting Jupiter with a focus of understanding their potential to host habitable – […]

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