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Astronauts Use Tricorders And Geology Tools During ESA Away Team Training
While NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson has created a small trench to analyze with a portable spectrometer some levels of now-buried rock deposits, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst looks for more clues […]
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ESA PANGAEA Astronaut Away Team Training With Tricorders And Cameras
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 using the […]
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Tricorder Tech: Using ESA Electronic FieldBook And Spectrometer During Away Team Practice
Having found a site of interest, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet investigates with the spectrometer while JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi uses the microscope, associated with the ESA Electronic FieldBook.
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Tricorder Tech: Andreas Mogensen Using ESA’s Electronic FieldBook On An Away Mission
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, while using the ESA Electronic FieldBook (EFB) during the last traverse of the ESA PANGAEA course.
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Concordia Station Away Team Members Depart Antarctica
Every year Concordia hosts a crew of up to 16 people coordinated by ESA and Concordia partners, supplied by universities and research institutions from across Europe. It is a joint […]
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ESA-JAXA Away Team Practices Away Mission Photography
ESA and JAXA astronauts recently conducted familiarization tryouts for the NASA Artemis HULC camera during a session of the ESA PANGAEA planetary geological field training in Lanzarote, Spain.
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ESA Away Team Training: Tricorders Detect Underground Life
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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Tricorder Tech: Astronaut Kate Rubins Uses ESA’s Electronic FieldBook Microscope In A Cave
NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins performing detailed analyses with the EFB-associated microscope.
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Tricorder Tech: PicoRuler: Molecular Rulers For High-resolution Microscopy
Editor’s note: you and/or your robotic assistants are exploring a new world where life exists. You are trying to understand its basic genomics, cell structure, and other aspects of its […]