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Away Team Update: Exploring Volcanic Caves To Advancing The Search For Life On Mars

by Keith Cowing

Through the intricate study of lava tubes — caves formed following volcanic eruptions when lava cools down — an international team of researchers has uncovered clues about Earth’s ancient environments […]

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ESA Astronaut Away Team Practice With The Artemis HULC camera

by Keith Cowing

NASA astronaut candidate Jessica Wittner testing the NASA Artemis HULC camera during a session of the ESA PANGAEA planetary geological field training in Corona lava tube, Lanzarote, Spain.

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Away Team Tech: Spain’s Hypersaline Tirez Lagoon Proposed As A Mars ‘Astrobiological Time-Analog’

by Keith Cowing

The ongoing search for signs of life on Mars relies in part on terrestrial analogs – places on Earth closely resembling the past or current geology and climate of the […]

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