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Tricorder Tech: ESA Away Team Portable Microscope Training

Astronaut Arnaud Prost is taking closeup pictures of a sample through a portable microscope to evaluate the mineral phases. Astrobiology, Astrogeology,

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Tricorder Microscope Training During ESA PANGEA 2025

Editor’s note: Astronaut Thomas Pesquet carries out investigations with the spectrometer associated with the ESA Electronic FieldBook

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ESA Tricorder Away Team Training In A Lava Tube

ESA astronaut Rosemary Coogan uses the microscope associated to the Electronic FieldBook, to investigate some deposits on the Corona lava tube walls.

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Astronauts Swab The Space Station’s Exterior For Microbes (Update)

UPDATE: Astronaut Suni Williams conducted this EVA on 30 January 2025. Earlier post: Astronauts are scheduled to venture outside the International Space Station to collect microbiological samples during crew spacewalks […]

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ESA Away Team Training With Tricorders

Rosemary Coogan (ESA), Arnaud Prost (ESA astronaut reserve) and Norishige Kanai (JAXA), trainees of ESA PANGAEA course, investigate some deposits, using the microscope associated with the Electronic FieldBook.

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Away Team Update: Exploring Volcanic Caves To Advancing The Search For Life On Mars

Through the intricate study of lava tubes — caves formed following volcanic eruptions when lava cools down — an international team of researchers has uncovered clues about Earth’s ancient environments […]

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ESA PANGEA Away Team Awaiting Beam Up From Tinguaton Crater

ESA PANGAEA course trainees Rosemary Coogan (ESA), Arnaud Prost (ESA astronaut reserve) and Norishige Kanai (JAXA), on the ridge of the Tinguaton crater.

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