NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli is ready to descend the active shaft in Abel Cave to reach the underground base camp.
Away Team
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ESA Away Team Tricorder Training
ESA is developing a digital tool to support lunar exploration. The Electronic Field Book (EFB) is an all-in-one information system that exchanges data and integrates science activities in remote environments.
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Away Team Sample Return And Tracking: Physical Sample Tracking And Attribution In Earth And Environmental Sciences
Physical samples and their associated data and metadata underpin scientific discoveries across disciplines and can enable new science when appropriately archived. However, there are significant gaps in current practices and […]
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Former USGS Geologist Lauren Edgar Selected As A NASA Astronaut Candidate
Meet Lauren Edgar, once a geologist studying the Earth, Moon, and Mars, now one of NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s newest astronaut candidates!
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Astronaut Away Team Field Training In Iceland
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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Away Team Training: Analogs for VENus’ GEologically Recent Surfaces (AVENGERS) Initiative
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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ESA Away Team Training: Lunar Geology Lessons For Artemis
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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Oceanic Gene Transfer On A Planetry Scale
Researchers Quantify Rate Of Essential Evolutionary Process In Earth’s Ocean
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Century-Scale Effect Of Climate Change On Meteorite Falls
Climate change is inducing a global atmospheric contraction above the tropopause (~10 km), leading to systematic decrease in neutral air density.
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Teaching Robots To Walk On Mars From The Sand Of New Mexico
Researchers are closer to equipping a dog-like robot to conduct science on the surface of Mars after five days of experiments this month at White Sands National Park in New […]