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Extensive Freshened Water Beneath Earth’s Ocean Floor Confirmed For The First Time

The goal of this expedition went far beyond collecting sediment cores. Scientists also set out to sample the water stored within the sediments, including from sandy layers that act as […]

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ESA Away Team Training: Lunar Geology Lessons For Artemis

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: Testing Away Team Tools For The Moon And Beyond

Bathed in realistic lighting, this was the first rehearsal to try out the ergonomics of scientific tools to study the mineralogical and chemical composition of regolith – the dust, soil […]

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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.

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ESA Astronauts Practice Lunar Away Team Missions In Norway

Two European astronauts are following the traces of a treasure trove of rare, Moon-like crystals in a Norwegian fjord as part of the PANGAEA geology training course.

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