Editor’s note: the procedures, new advanced spacesuits, analytical instruments, imaging and communications gear, and other tools associated with Artemis activities on the lunar surface will directly impact the capabilities that […]
Field Trip
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NASA Offworld Away Team Training In Arizona
To prepare for exploring the Moon during NASA’s Artemis campaign, the agency is conducting a week-long field test in the lunar-like landscape of San Francisco Volcanic Field near Flagstaff, Arizona […]
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Away Team Practice: NASA Field Geology Training Prepares Artemis Mission Support Teams
NASA engineers, managers, and flight directors recently traded their cubicles and conference rooms for an ancient volcanic field in the northern Arizona desert to participate in a field geology course […]
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Second Workshop On Terrestrial Analogs For Planetary Exploration
Workshop Dates and Location The Second Workshop on Terrestrial Analogs for Planetary Exploration is scheduled for August 12–14, 2024, at the High Country Conference Center in Flagstaff, Arizona with virtual participation available.
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Tricorder Tech: ESA PANGAEA 2023 Electronic FieldBook Tool Suite
An overview of the Electronic FieldBook tool suite, equipment that the ESA PANGAEA 2023 course trainers will use intensively during the traverses on the island of Lanzarote.
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From Lava Caves To Mars: Hawaiʻi Students Unveil Astrobiology Discoveries
Imagine what life could be like on Mars. What would you need to survive in an extreme space environment? High school students in Hawaiʻi, through a partnership with the University […]
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Away Team Training On Earth: ESA’s CAVES Training Course
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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ESA PANGAEA Away Team Trainees Use Tricorders To Investigate A Rock Outcrop
ESA PANGAEA 2022-2023 course trainees investigate the mineral content in a rock outcrop, using the spectrometer associated with the Electronic FieldBook.
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Astronauts Use Tricorders And Geology Tools During ESA Away Team Training
While NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson has created a small trench to analyze with a portable spectrometer some levels of now-buried rock deposits, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst looks for more clues […]
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ESA-JAXA Away Team Practices Away Mission Photography
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.