Hi Keith – We’ve successfully traveled from the Novo ice runway to Lake Untersee, Antarctica, navigating our snowmobiles and tracked vehicles across the icy plains. The snowmobile journey, lasting about […]
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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 29 October 2023: Arrival at Novolazarevskaya Station
Keith, After our arrival, we settled into one of the small huts at the ice runway operated by Ultima-Antarctic Logistics (formerly ALCI) and began preparing for the 125 km traverse […]
Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 27 October 2023: Southbound
Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is heading back to Antarctica – and Lake Untersee for another field season of Research. We’ll be posting his updates here. You can read about […]
Two Hundred Years After Darwin’s Expedition DARWIN200 Embarks On A Two Year, 40,000 Mile Voyage
Editor’s note: As we embark on expeditions to seek out life on other worlds it is important to look back at the first truly global expeditions that sought to understand […]
NASA Interns Participate In Away Team Missions
Flying over and tromping through watery landscapes along the East Coast, working alongside NASA scientists, and recording measurements about the air that they’re travelling through – these are not the […]
Away Team Expedition To The Galápagos – Discovering What Darwin Couldn’t See
Editor’s note: As you read this release about an expedition to the Galápagos Islands think about how you’d conduct a systematic assay of new life forms as part of an […]
Away Team Finds A 17-pound Meteorite In Antarctica
Antarctica is a tough place to work, for obvious reasons— it’s bitterly cold, remote, and wild. However, it’s one of the best places in the world to hunt for meteorites.
Away Team Mission On Earth: Mapping Fungal Networks On Earth’s Most Remote Island
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean is an uninhabited atoll that houses underground mycorrhizal networks that may have evolved a unique ability to cycle nutrients between seabirds, rainforest trees, […]
Ocean World Away Teams: Alan Stern Announces Call for Mission Specialists for 2023 Titanic Expedition
Earth’s oceans remain the least explored and understood, yet most impactful ecosystems on the planet. With a longitudinal study of the Titanic, OceanGate Expeditions is working to change that.
Away Team Tools: Virtual Hiking Map for Jezero Crater – Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Site
Prospective Mars explorers can now go for a virtual hike around the landing site of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover with an interactive map loaded with orbital imagery, terrain data […]
