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Iron-sulfur Minerals Bear Witness To The Earliest Life On Earth

by Keith Cowing

A team of researchers at the Universities of Tübingen and Göttingen has found that certain minerals with characteristic shapes could indicate the activity of bacteria in hydrothermal vents – or […]

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The Complex Molecules Detector (CMOLD)

by Keith Cowing

Organic chemistry is ubiquitous in the Solar System, and both Mars and a number of icy satellites of the outer Solar System show substantial promise for having hosted or hosting […]

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Expedition To The Atacama Trench: Thinking Ahead To Enceladus and Europa

by Keith Cowing

The Atacama in northern Chile is the oldest and driest desert on Earth. While tectonic activity reconfigured the shape and arrangement of land masses over the last 150 million years, […]

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Offworld Away Team Practice For Astronauts

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: the procedures, new advanced spacesuits, analytical instruments, imaging and communications gear, and other tools associated with Artemis activities on the lunar surface will directly impact the capabilities that […]

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Lava World Away Team Practice: NASA’s VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic Iceland

by Keith Cowing

With its crushing atmospheric pressure, clouds of sulfuric acid, and searing surface temperature, Venus is an especially challenging place to study. But scientists know that observing its surface can provide […]

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PANGAEA 2023 Away Team Training: The Electronic FieldBook Toolkit

by Keith Cowing

The trainees of the ESA PANGAEA2023 course focus on the use of some of the Electronic FieldBook tools suite, under the guidance by the course instructors.

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Astronaut Away Team Training At Tinguaton

by Keith Cowing

After receiving feedback from the science backroom, astronauts Takuya Onishi (JAXA), Thomas Pesquet (ESA) and Jessica Wittner (NASA) proceeded to sample small quantities of pyroclasts.

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Offworld Away Team Training Half A Century Ago: Apollo 12

by Keith Cowing

Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean train for their upcoming Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. Here they are entering a simulated lunar surface area near Flagstaff, Arizona.

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