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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 23/24 October 2024: Traverse Update

by Keith Cowing

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 […]

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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 20 October 2024: Arrival at Novolazarevskaya Station, Antarctica

by Keith Cowing

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 […]

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Dale Andersen’s Field Report: Preview: 2024 Lake Untersee Field Season

by Keith Cowing

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 […]

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Decoding Organic Compounds In Lava Tube Sulfates To Understand Potential Biomarkers In The Martian Subsurface

by Keith Cowing

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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Scientific Exploration Of The Jøtul Hydrothermal Vent Field

by Keith Cowing

The Jøtul hydrothermal vent field is located on the Knipovich Ridge, which can be found east of Greenland in the northernmost Norwegian-Greenland Sea.

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Away Team Training With ESA PANGAEA 2024

by Keith Cowing

ESA PANGAEA course instructor Nicolas Mangold describes the formation process of gypsum veins to JAXA astronaut Norishige Kanai, ESA astronaut Rosemary Coogan and member of the European astronaut reserve Arnaud […]

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Tricorder Tech: Digitizing Earth’s Fossil Record With Low-cost 3D Scanning

by Keith Cowing

Editor’s note: As we begin to expand our search for life to other worlds we are going to need to be economical interms of the equipment we send and how […]

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Ice Planet Update: Digital Twin Of RRS Discovery Shows How Antarctic Research Began

by Keith Cowing

A project led by the University of Southampton has created a ‘digital twin’ of RRS Discovery – the pioneering research vessel that first took explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest […]

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