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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 18 November 2022: Sediment Cores And Ground Penetrating Radar

Keith We had a very productive day yesterday splitting into a few groups with differing tasks. Denis and Andre focussed on obtaining additional sediment cores spaced across the lake North […]

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 14 November 2022: Water Quality Profiles

Keith The winds calmed last night around 9-10 pm. The more destructive gusts we had been experiencing the previous 18 hrs or diminished substantially to levels our tents can easily […]

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 13 November 2022: High Winds At Lake Untersee

Hi Keith, The stormfront hit early this morning and we were outside checking tent lines and gear by 2 am. Right now we have winds gusting 50 to 60 mph […]

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 11 November 2022: Lake Sampling And GNSS Measurements At Lake Untersee

Yesterday was quite productive at Lake Untersee. We were able to recover a 50 cm sediment core from the deepest region of the south basin (102 m) which is also […]

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 7 November 2022: Drilling Holes And Preparing Gear

Keith, The weather shifted last night and for the moment we have overcast skies with low clouds blanketing the surrounding peaks, 30 knot winds from the south and -12C air […]

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Tricorder Tech: Developing An Astrobiological Nomenclature Code For Offworld Use

Editor’s note: The article “SeqCode: a nomenclatural code for prokaryotes described from sequence data” recently appeared in the journal Nature Microbiology. The article deals with a process (SeqCode) whereby genomic […]

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Away Team Tools: Virtual Hiking Map for Jezero Crater – Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Site

Prospective Mars explorers can now go for a virtual hike around the landing site of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover with an interactive map loaded with orbital imagery, terrain data […]

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