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 […]
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Away Team Training On Earth: ESA’s CAVES Training Course
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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Getting Ready For Offworld Astrobiology Expeditions: A Universal DNA Barcode For The Tree Of Life
Editor’s note: According to this study “Species identification using DNA barcodes has revolutionized biodiversity sciences and society at large.“ When we start to explore inhabited worlds we’re going to have […]
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Tricorder Tech: Offworld Away Team Practice With A Portable Spectrometer
Checking the mineral composition of some weathered rocks with the ASD TerraSpec Halo Mineral Identifier.
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Practicing For Offworld Away Team Missions: Astrogeology And Astrobiology On Lanzarote, Canary Islands
ESA spacewalk instructor Hervé Stevenin carries all sorts of instrumentation, from high-tech spectrometers to NASA replicas from the Apollo era. ESA is assessing if the tools are suitable for future […]
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Tricorder Tech: A Biological Camera That Captures And Stores Images Directly Into DNA
Editor’s note: As we develop the instrumentation for use on offworld Astrobiology Away Teams, compactness and efficiency will be paramount. Given the distances involved team members may well need to […]
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Tricorder 101: ESA Pangaea 2021 Electronic FieldBook Overview
Leonardo Turchi (Spaceclick) introduces the Electronic FieldBook (EFB) to the trainees and gives hands-on training for the utilisation of sampling and imaging wireless devices.
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ESA Away Team Training: Geological Sample Collection
NASA astronaut candidate Jessica Wittner (NASA), astronauts Thomas Pesquet (ESA) and Takuya Onishi (JAXA) documenting the collection of geological samples during a field traverse of the ESA PANGAEA course.
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ESA PANGAEA Away Team Trainees Use Tricorders To Investigate A Rock Outcrop
ESA PANGAEA 2022-2023 course trainees investigate the mineral content in a rock outcrop, using the spectrometer associated with the Electronic FieldBook.
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Tricorder And Replicator Tech: 3D Printing Components For A Portable Mass Spectrometer
Editor’s note: you are on a mission to explore a new world. While you are out on an Away Mission one of your instruments breaks , wears out, or otherwise […]