Astronaut Arnaud Prost is taking closeup pictures of a sample through a portable microscope to evaluate the mineral phases. Astrobiology, Astrogeology,
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Using An Offworld Life Science Glovebox
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers conducts research operations inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox aboard the International Space Station.
Microbiology In An Orbital Glovebox
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers works in the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Sciences Glovebox processing bacteria samples before viewing them inside a 3D imaging microscope called […]
Life Detection: A Simple Test For Moving Microbes
Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that can move independently, an ability that is a solid […]
Tricorder Tech: Ultra-small Spectrometer Yields The Power Of A Device 1,000 Times Larger
Editor’s note: as we send increasingly sophisticated astrobiology probes – to more places – often at much greater distances – they will need to be able to do more and […]
Offworld Life Science: Immunofluorescence Staining Of A Synovial Organoid
Immunofluorescence staining of a synovial organoid shows CD68+ macrophages (immune cells) in yellow, CD31+ endothelial cells (blood vessels) in red, PDPN+ fibroblasts in green, and nuclei in blue is seen.
Tricorder Tech: Smartphone-based Microscope Rapidly Reconstructs 3D Holograms
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 […]
Flight-Scope: Microscopy With Microfluidics In Microgravity
With the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA working to return humans to the moon and onwards to Mars, it has never been more important to study the impact of […]
Tricorder Tech: AI Tool Creates Synthetic Images Of Cells For Enhanced Microscopy Analysis
Editor’s note: when we start to send Away Teams to other worlds to search for – and then quantify – life forms imagery will play a pivotal role. Given the […]
PANGAEA 2023 Away Team Training: The Electronic FieldBook Toolkit
The trainees of the ESA PANGAEA2023 course focus on the use of some of the Electronic FieldBook tools suite, under the guidance by the course instructors.
