Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is heading back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in January-February 2026 for another field season of research. Update: Dale and team have landed. Picture below.
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Astrobiologist Dale Andersen’s Antarctic Field Report: 5 January 2026: Preparing to Leave Cape Town For The Ice
Keith The team and all of our gear and cargo made it to Cape Town, which feels especially welcoming right now—warm, bright, and easy to settle into. Over Table Mountain, […]
Tricorder Tech: NASA Goddard Instrument Away Team On Hawaii
Editor’s note: This story is adapted from content originally published on NASA social media accounts in September 2022.
Astrobiologist Dale Andersen’s Antarctic Field Report: Preview: 2026 Lake Untersee Field Season
Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen will be back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee from early January through the end of February 2026 for another field season of research, leading an […]
Away Team Sample Return And Tracking: Physical Sample Tracking And Attribution In Earth And Environmental Sciences
Physical samples and their associated data and metadata underpin scientific discoveries across disciplines and can enable new science when appropriately archived. However, there are significant gaps in current practices and […]
Planetary Bioinformatics: Breaking Through Biology’s Data Wall On Earth
Editor’s note: If we aspire to mount expeditions to new worlds and then embrace the task of characterizing and quantifying whatever life forms we find, the ability to map and […]
Predicting Exploration Crew Medical Officer Training Needs: Applying Evidence-Based Predictive Analytics to Space Medicine Training
Introduction: Predictive analytics may be a useful adjunct to identify training needs for exploration class medical officers onboard deep space vehicles.
NASA SOMD 2025 TRISH Appendix A – Enhancing eXploration Platforms and ANalog Definition (EXPAND) Exploratory Studies
Release date: March 4, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ETStep-1 proposals due date: April 16, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ETStep-2 proposals due date: July 2, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET The NASA-funded Translational Research Institute […]
Ocean World Expeditions: Remote Science At Sea With Remotely Operated Vehicles, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Conducting sea-going ocean science no longer needs to be limited to the number of berths on a ship given that telecommunications, computing, and networking technologies onboard ships have become familiar […]
Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 14 December 2024: Departing Antarctica
Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in October-December 2024 for another field season of research (preview). Dale’s work is coordinated through the SETI Institute. We’ll be posting […]
