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Away Team Tech: Self-Contained Device Isolates Biological Samples

Overview JSC is looking to interested parties to license and commercialize this patented technology. Innovators at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) developed a patented self-contained device for isolating deoxyribonucleic acid […]

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Away Team Mission On Earth: Mapping Fungal Networks On Earth’s Most Remote Island

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean is an uninhabited atoll that houses underground mycorrhizal networks that may have evolved a unique ability to cycle nutrients between seabirds, rainforest trees, […]

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 11 December 2022: Back at the ALCI Ice Runway and Airbase Facility

Keith, Over the last three days we pulled down the camp and completed a few last minute science chores before returning to the ALCI airbase facility.

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 8 December 2022: Traversing An Icy Ocean World And Thinking About Avatar 2

Keith The other day when Miles and I were using the Trimble GNSS equipment in the Aurkjosen Cirque area.

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Ocean World Away Teams: Alan Stern Announces Call for Mission Specialists for 2023 Titanic Expedition

Earth’s oceans remain the least explored and understood, yet most impactful ecosystems on the planet. With a longitudinal study of the Titanic, OceanGate Expeditions is working to change that.

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 6 December 2022: A Very Busy Week At Lake Untersee

Keith, We have been fairly busy the last week or so and our weather has been for the most part fairly good. That said, we have 45 knot winds today […]

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 22 November 2022: Aurkjosen Cirque

Keith, Denis and Andre just returned from a hike to the moraine located several hundred meters above the Aurkjosen Cirque, having redeployed the temperature loggers used to monitor temperature and […]

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