Keith, After our arrival, we settled into one of the small huts at the ice runway operated by Ultima-Antarctic Logistics (formerly ALCI) and began preparing for the 125 km traverse […]
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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 27 October 2023: Southbound
Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is heading back to Antarctica – and Lake Untersee for another field season of Research. We’ll be posting his updates here. You can read about […]
Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exploration Gear & Tech, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Missions & Hardware, Nanotechnology & SynBio, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Tricorders & Sensors
Tricorder Tech: Reviewing The State Of Biosensors And Lab-on-a-chip Technologies: Opportunities For Extreme Environments And Space Exploration
The space race is entering a new era of exploration, in which the number of robotic and human missions to various places in our solar system is rapidly increasing.
Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Away Teams Explore Earth’s Inhospitable Oceanic Depths
The vibrant reefs that line the shores of the Red Sea, well known to tourists and divers alike, belie the fact that this marine environment is one of the harshest […]
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Tricorder Tech: Away Teams Are Using A “Pre-Tricorder” Spectrometer In The Field – Today
When we start to roam around other worlds we’re going to need the sort of things that a Star Trek “Tricorder” does. Indeed, we need these tools now as we […]
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Expedition Veritas: Away Team Visits To A Variety Of Terrains
One of the main goals of the Expedition VERITAS campaign was to create a “library” of as many different volcanic surface textures as possible to use as a reference for […]
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Tricorder Tech: Away Team Gas Detection With A Smartphone
Editor’s note: A key aspect to understanding a new location during an Away Team Mission is understanding the local atmosphere and how it is affected by – and influences – […]
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Tricorder Away Team Tech: A Novel Colorimetric Multi-channel Sensor On A Cell Phone Platform
Reliable colorimetric analysis technologies have been widely praised for their highly sensitive and selective responses towards various contaminants in environmental monitoring.
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NASA Interns Participate In Away Team Missions
Flying over and tromping through watery landscapes along the East Coast, working alongside NASA scientists, and recording measurements about the air that they’re travelling through – these are not the […]
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Understanding Planetary Life Signs From Orbit Prior To Away Team Visits
Editor’s note: when we begin to conduct Away Team visits to other worlds that host life we will need to do an assay of how everything on these worlds works […]