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Dale Andersen’s Field Report: Preview: 2024 Lake Untersee Field Season

by Keith Cowing

Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in October-December 2024 for another field season of research (preview). Dale’s work is coordinated through the SETI Institute. We’ll be posting […]

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Through-Ice Acoustic Communication For Ocean Worlds Exploration

by Keith Cowing

Subsurface exploration of ice-covered planets and moons presents communications challenges because of the need to communicate through kilometers of ice. The objective of this task is to develop the capability […]

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Scientific Exploration Of The Jøtul Hydrothermal Vent Field

by Keith Cowing

The Jøtul hydrothermal vent field is located on the Knipovich Ridge, which can be found east of Greenland in the northernmost Norwegian-Greenland Sea.

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Ice Planet Update: Mysterious Patterns Revealed Under An Antarctic Ice Shelf

by Keith Cowing

An international research team deployed the uncrewed submersible ‘Ran’ underneath 350 m thick ice. They got back the very first detailed maps of the underside of a glacier, revealing clues […]

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Deep-Sea Discovery Could Help Find Alien Life

by Keith Cowing

Lauren Seyler believes the search for alien life in the universe begins much closer to home — on the bottom of the ocean.

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Microbial Structures In An Antarctic Lake Could Reveal More About How Life Evolved

by Keith Cowing

By Emma Caton — In the depths of remote Antarctic lakes, communities of microorganisms are thriving where few life forms can survive.

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Magnesium Silicate Chimneys at the Strytan Hydrothermal Field, Iceland, as Analogues for Prebiotic Chemistry at Alkaline Submarine Hydrothermal Vents on the Early Earth

by Keith Cowing

The Strytan Hydrothermal Field (SHF) in basaltic terrain in Iceland is one of the extant alkaline submarine hydrothermal vent systems favoured as analogues for where life on Earth may have […]

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Ice Planet Update: The Dawn Of Earth’s Antarctic Ice Sheets

by Keith Cowing

For the first time, researchers, including from British Antarctic Survey, have combined unique geological samples with sophisticated modelling to provide surprising insights into when and where today’s East and West […]

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Away Team Droid Tech: Towards Automated Sample Collection and Return in Extreme Underwater Environments

by Keith Cowing

In this report, we present the system design, operational strategy, and results of coordinated multi-vehicle field demonstrations of autonomous marine robotic technologies in search-for-life missions within the Pacific shelf margin […]

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Simulations Show How Low Gravity On Ocean Worlds Might Help To Sustain Warm Water Circulation For Millions Of Years

by Keith Cowing

A new study led by team members at UC Santa Cruz have used a complex computer model to investigate how the influence of low gravity, as found on ocean worlds […]

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