Earlier this week strong winds over the Saharan Desert blew westwards pushing clouds of dust and sand over southern and central Morocco and out into the Atlantic Ocean. This is […]
Canary Islands
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Away Team Tech: Testing Rovers In Lava Tubes For Future Space Exploration
What does an ancient lava tube in the Canary Islands have in common with space exploration? For our robotics teams, it turns out, quite a lot.
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Decoding Organic Compounds In Lava Tube Sulfates To Understand Potential Biomarkers In The Martian Subsurface
Exploring molecular biomarkers in lava tube speleothems offers insights into environmental dynamics, biogeochemical processes, and subsurface life, with implications for astrobiology, particularly in Martian analog environments.
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ESA Away Team Training: Land of Fire – Lanzarote, Canary Islands
A crew of astronauts explored the barren and dry landscape of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands in 2017 to simulate a planetary mission. The trip started with a visit to […]
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Connecting Molecular Biomarkers, Mineralogical Composition, And Microbial Diversity From Mars Analog Lava Tubes
Lanzarote (Canary Islands, Spain) is one of the best terrestrial analogs to Martian volcanology. Particularly, Lanzarote lava tubes may offer access to recognizably preserved chemical and morphological biosignatures valuable for […]
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Practicing For Offworld Away Team Missions: Astrogeology And Astrobiology On Lanzarote, Canary Islands
ESA spacewalk instructor Hervé Stevenin carries all sorts of instrumentation, from high-tech spectrometers to NASA replicas from the Apollo era. ESA is assessing if the tools are suitable for future […]