Editor’s note: Circular pits – and caves – have been discovered on the Moon and on Mars. They have been suggested as possible locations for establishing base camp infrastructure since […]
Alexander Gerst
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Astronauts Use Tricorders And Geology Tools During ESA Away Team Training
While NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson has created a small trench to analyze with a portable spectrometer some levels of now-buried rock deposits, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst looks for more clues […]
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ESA Away Team Tricorder Training: The Electronic Field Book
ESA is developing an application that tells astronauts where they are, where they ran scientific operations and will also connect to mission control. The Electronic Field Book is a tool […]
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ESA Away Team Training: Tricorders Detect Underground Life
Astronauts from five space agencies around the world take part in ESA’s CAVES training course– Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills.
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ESA Astronauts Practice Lunar Away Team Missions In Norway
Two European astronauts are following the traces of a treasure trove of rare, Moon-like crystals in a Norwegian fjord as part of the PANGAEA geology training course.
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Away Team Training: Turning Astronauts Into Planetary Explorers
ESA’s geology training course PANGAEA has come of age with the publication of a paper that describes the quest for designing the best possible geology training for the next astronauts […]