Mars rovers have teams of human experts on Earth telling them what to do. But robots on lander missions to moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter are too far away to […]
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ESA Astronauts Practice Lunar Away Team Missions In Norway
Two European astronauts are following the traces of a treasure trove of rare, Moon-like crystals in a Norwegian fjord as part of the PANGAEA geology training course.
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Tricorder Tech: Precision Medicine: Nanofluidic Aptamer Nanoarray Measures Individual Proteins
Editor’s note: If you are on a long term mission or on an away team on another world, you might want your tricorder to be able to do some quick […]
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Away Team Tech: Impossible Sensing Brings High-Tech Laser Lab To The Ocean Floor
On Friday, May 19, 2023, Impossible Sensing, along with a team of scientists and engineers from SETI Institute, NASA JPL, University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory and other institutions onboard […]
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Ocean World Away Teams: Exploring life In The Deepest Parts Of The Indian Ocean
Scientists have used a human-occupied submersible to explore one of the Indian Ocean’s deepest and little-known spots, documenting its unique habitat and diverse marine life.
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Elation Through Filtration: An Oceanographer’s Sensations at Sea Aboard R/V Sally Ride
By Dante Capone, Ph.D. student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Aboard R/V Sally Ride
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Snake-Like EELS Droid Slithers Into New Robotics Terrain
How do you create a robot that can go places no one has ever seen before – on its own, without real-time human input? A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion […]
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Tricorder Tech: Using Your Smartphone As A High-Resolution Handheld Holographic Microscope
SMART researchers create world’s smallest LED and holographic microscope that enable conversion of existing mobile phone cameras into high-resolution microscopes
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Tricorder Tech: Android-based Application For Photoacoustic Tomography Image Reconstruction
Editor’s note: Photoacoustic tomography allows unique capabilities to look deep inside an organism. Up until now such a capability required the use of a desktop computer to process the data […]
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Away Team Exploration Of Lava Caves Informs The Search For Life On Mars
In August 2019, Chloe Fishman crawled into a cave beneath the largest active volcano on the planet. Along with scientists from NASA and other institutions, she had come to Hawaii’s […]