During the first step of humankind’s first-ever lunar-Earth flyby, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission captured this stunning view of the Moon.
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The Length Of A Day On Earth And Its Impact On The Evolution Of Life
The Earth’s rotation has been decelerating throughout its history due to tidal dissipation, but the variation of the rate of this deceleration through time has not been established. We present […]
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Away Team Droid Tech: Multi-Objective Global Path Planning for Lunar Exploration With a Quadruped Robot
In unstructured environments the best path is not always the shortest, but needs to consider various objectives like energy efficiency, risk of failure or scientific outcome.
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Away Team History: Explorer Journals – Past And Future
When we return to the Moon, and then move outward to Mars and beyond, the people who visit these strange new places will write entries in their journals (or blogs) […]
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Analog Studies, Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Artemis & Lunar Exploration, Away Teams & Field Reports, Exploration Gear & Tech, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Missions & Hardware, Moon, People Of Astrobiology, Status Report, Tricorders & Sensors
Tricorder Tech: Artemis Augmented Reality 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 […]
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Offworld Away Team Practice For Astronauts
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 […]
Posted inArtemis & Lunar Exploration, Astrogeology, Comets and Asteroids, Magnetic Fields, Electromagnetism, bioelectricity,, Meteorites & Asteroids, Missions & Hardware, Moon, Planetary Protection & Biosafety, Press Release, Sample Return
Removal Of Magnetic Spacecraft Contamination Within Extraterrestrial Samples Is Easy To Do
For decades, scientists have pondered the mystery of the moon’s ancient magnetism. Based on analyses of lunar samples, its now-deceased magnetic field may have been active for more than 1.5 […]
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Offworld Away Team Training Half A Century Ago: Apollo 12
Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean train for their upcoming Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. Here they are entering a simulated lunar surface area 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 […]
Posted inMars, Missions & Hardware, Moon, Planetary Protection & Biosafety, Reports, Roadmaps, & Plans, Societal Issues, Status Report
Exogeoconservation: Protecting Geological Heritage On Celestial Bodies
Geoconservation is an increasingly widely adopted theoretical, practical and administrative approach to the protection of geological and geomorphological features of special scientific, functional, historic, cultural, aesthetic, or ecological value.