I awoke this morning at 4:30 AM, much to my surprise, to a hot tent. It was so hot that I needed to open the vents to remain remotely comfortable. […]
Away Team
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 8 July 2002: Arrival
I made it! My arrival here, while expected – indeed eagerly anticipated – was quite a sudden event.
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Determinative Mineralogy: An essential component of Planetary Exploration – Decadal White Paper of the Extraterrestrial Mineralogy Panel
INTRODUCTION Our existing knowledge of extraterrestrial mineralogy has been gained largely from analyses of returned or collected samples — returned samples and collected meteorites from the Moon, meteorites from Mars, […]
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Dale Andersen’s 1996 Antarctic Field Research Photo Album Volume 1
Editor’s note: This is a revised version of the original website that was first posted – from Antarctica – in 1996.
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Chris McKay’s Astrobiology Away Team In Antarctic Dry Valleys
Dr. Chris McKay Deploying Environmental Monitoring Station in Colonized Sandstone, Dry Valleys, Antarctica.