Iceland’s diverse volcanic terrain is an excellent stand-in for lunar and planetary processes and provides an ideal environment in which to simulate surface science operations. Editor’s note: when it comes […]
Field Trip
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Away Team Mission: NASA, USGS Scientists Go Rock Hounding in California’s High Desert
Editor’s note: when it comes to conducting field trips – sorties – Away Team missions – on another world, astrogeology and astrobiology and astrochemistry overlap with one another all the […]
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Tricorder Tech For Everyone: NASA’s STELLA Open Science Instrument
Editor’s note: NASA has just authored a paper on a new way for people with a wide variety of interests to use – and build – sensor technology that is […]
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ESA AWAY Team Training – CAVES And PANGEA 2025
ESA reserve astronaut Arnaud Prost using the EFB microscope to define the content of mafic mineral of an analogue lunar rock in the Flakstadøya intrusive complex. Astrobiology, AwayTeam,
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Tricorder Tech: Digitizing Earth’s Fossil Record With Low-cost 3D Scanning
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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Away Team Droid Tech: Scientific Exploration of Challenging Planetary Analog Environments with a Team of Legged Robots
The interest in exploring planetary bodies for scientific investigation and in-situ resource utilization is ever-rising. Yet, many sites of interest are inaccessible to state-of-the-art planetary exploration robots because of the […]
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AwayTeam Tech: Distributed Instruments for Planetary Surface Science: Scientific Opportunities and Technology Feasibility
In this paper, we assess the scientific promise and technology feasibility of distributed instruments for planetary science. A distributed instrument is an instrument designed to collect spatially and temporally correlated […]
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ESA CAVES OffWorld Away Team Training: Astronauts Exploring Underground
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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Amity Mission for Analogue Space Expedition (AMASE-2024)
Amity Centre of Excellence in Astrobiology, Amity University Mumbai would like to welcome you to the upcoming Amity Mission for Analogue Space Expedition (AMASE-2024).
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Tricorder Tech: Artemis Away Team Field Test
Editor’s note: Right now NASA is planning the spacesuit and sensor technology needed for astronauts to operate during prolonged AwayTeam sorties to study astrogeology on the lunar surface. While the […]