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Dale Andersen’s Field Report: Preview: 2024 Lake Untersee Field Season

by Keith Cowing

Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in October-December 2024 for another field season of research (preview). Dale’s work is coordinated through the SETI Institute. We’ll be posting […]

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Ocean World Update: Deep-sea Discovery Shines Light On Life In The Twilight Zone

by Keith Cowing

The ocean’s twilight zone is deep, dark, and — according to new research — iron deficient. No sunlight reaches this region 200 to 1,000 meters below the sea surface, where […]

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Decoding Organic Compounds In Lava Tube Sulfates To Understand Potential Biomarkers In The Martian Subsurface

by Keith Cowing

Exploring molecular biomarkers in lava tube speleothems offers insights into environmental dynamics, biogeochemical processes, and subsurface life, with implications for astrobiology, particularly in Martian analog environments.

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Scientific Exploration Of The Jøtul Hydrothermal Vent Field

by Keith Cowing

The Jøtul hydrothermal vent field is located on the Knipovich Ridge, which can be found east of Greenland in the northernmost Norwegian-Greenland Sea.

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Away Team Training With ESA PANGAEA 2024

by Keith Cowing

ESA PANGAEA course instructor Nicolas Mangold describes the formation process of gypsum veins to JAXA astronaut Norishige Kanai, ESA astronaut Rosemary Coogan and member of the European astronaut reserve Arnaud […]

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Viral Secrets From Glacial Ice Reveal Climate Adaptations

by Keith Cowing

Researchers at The Ohio State University have made a significant discovery in understanding how viruses preserved in glacial ice have adapted to Earth’s climatic changes.

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Iceworld Update: Photosynthesis in Near Darkness

by Keith Cowing

Photosynthesis can take place in nature even at extremely low light levels. This is the result of an international study that investigated the development of Arctic microalgae at the end […]

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Astrobiology Aloft: Ballooning for Biologists: Mission Essentials for Flying Life Science Experiments to Near Space on NASA Large Scientific Balloons

by Keith Cowing

Despite centuries of scientific balloon flights, only a handful of experiments have produced biologically-relevant results. Yet unlike orbital spaceflight, it is much faster and cheaper to conduct biology research with […]

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