29 Nov 2012 11:15 am EST (4:15 pm UTC at Lake Untersee)
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 26 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
With the small 25 cm diameter sampling hole opened in the south basin of Lake Untersee, Valery, Vladimir and Michael collected 30 liters of water that is now being filtered in […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 25 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
Looks like our nice weather may continue for a few days. Today Alfonso, Michael and I installed two small met stations to collect wind/temp/RH at two locations around the lake.
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 24 November 2012, Lake Untersee, Antarctica
We are now fully operational at the Lake Untersee, all the tents are up and the weather has been cooperating nicely with little wind and sunny skies. I guess we need […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Status Report 21 November 2012, Novolazarevskaya Station, Antarctica
Received from Dale Andersen Novolazarevskaya Station, Antarctica, on 21 November 2012 via Iridium email:
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Human and Robotic Astrobiological Research in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Presenter: Peter T. Doran (University of Illinois, Chicago) May 21, 2012 11:00 AM Pacific The extreme cold and dry environment of the McMurdo Dry Valleys have made it one of […]
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen’s Field Reports: Lake Untersee, Antarctica (Gigapixel Panorama) 7 March 2012
Three and a half billion years ago our planet was quite different and Earth’s earliest biosphere was dominated by microbial communities – complex multicellular organisms were not to evolve for […]
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Video: Astrobiologists Diving Under The Ice In Antarctica: Getting Out of the Water
Dale Andersen: Our research in the perennially ice-covered lakes of Antarctica involves long, hard days, but they are always fun and exciting.
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Away Team Report: Haughton Mars Project – Sea-Ice Traverse Mission Completed
An international team of researchers led by Mars Institute scientist Dr. Pascal Lee successfully reached Devon Island, High Arctic, on Sunday, 16 May, 2010 after a 13-day, 150 km vehicular […]
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University of Washington Astrobiology Seminar: Kevin Hand “Joule Heating of the South Polar Terrain on Enceladus”
Loren Williams, “Where Did Protein Come From?” Date/Time: Tuesday December 8, 2009 2:30PM Pacific Speaker: Loren Williams (Georgia Institute of Technology) Abstract: Ribosomes are RNA-based macromolecular machines responsible for the […]