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Away Team Droid Tech: Martian Lava Tube Exploration Using Jumping Legged Robots: A Concept Study

by Keith Cowing

In recent years, robotic exploration has become increasingly important in planetary exploration. One area of particular interest for exploration is Martian lava tubes, which have several distinct features of interest.

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Away Team Droid Tech: Martian Exploration of Lava Tubes (MELT) with ReachBot: Scientific Investigation and Concept of Operations

by Keith Cowing

As natural access points to the subsurface, lava tubes and other caves have become premier targets of planetary missions for astrobiological analyses.

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ESA CAVES OffWorld Away Team Training: Astronauts Exploring Underground

by Keith Cowing

Astronauts from five space agencies around the world take part in ESA’s CAVES training course– Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills.

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Away Team Astronauts Practice Descent Skills During ESA CAVES Training

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: Circular pits – and caves – have been discovered on the Moon and on Mars. They have been suggested as possible locations for establishing base camp infrastructure since […]

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Tricorder Tech: Using ESA Electronic FieldBook And Spectrometer During Away Team Practice

by Keith Cowing

Having found a site of interest, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet investigates with the spectrometer while JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi uses the microscope, associated with the ESA Electronic FieldBook.

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ESA-JAXA Away Team Practices Away Mission Photography

by Keith Cowing

ESA and JAXA astronauts recently conducted familiarization tryouts for the NASA Artemis HULC camera during a session of the ESA PANGAEA planetary geological field training in Lanzarote, Spain.

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ESA Away Team Tricorder Training: The Electronic Field Book

by Keith Cowing

ESA is developing an application that tells astronauts where they are, where they ran scientific operations and will also connect to mission control. The Electronic Field Book is a tool […]

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ESA Away Team Training: Tricorders Detect Underground Life

by Keith Cowing

Astronauts from five space agencies around the world take part in ESA’s CAVES training course– Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills.

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