Editor’s note: Submersibles and oceanic exploration have a long history of intersection and collaboration. NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara was a research engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution working with deep-ocean […]
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Selected By NASA To Investigate Ocean Worlds And Their Organic Carbon Cycles
Ocean worlds such as Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and Saturn’s counterpart, Enceladus, could be among the most favorable places to discover life beyond Earth—and perhaps even a second, independent origin […]
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Insight Into How Some Species Thrive In Dark, Oxygen-free Environments
Most life on Earth relies on the sun’s energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the reach of its rays? A new study […]
Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Exploration Gear & Tech, Icy Worlds, Life Support Systems, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Missions & Hardware, People Of Astrobiology, Press Release, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Water Planet Exploration: The Youngest Pilot Of DSV Alvin
The Wood Holes Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently announced the newest human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin pilot, Kaitlyn Beardshear.
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Away Team Droid Tech: Towards Automated Sample Collection and Return in Extreme Underwater Environments
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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NASA Makes Dual Investment in Ocean Worlds Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(From 2019) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will invest in a major new research program headquartered at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) that pulls together some of […]
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Offworld Away Team Analog: New Opportunities and Untapped Scientific Potential in Earth’s Abyssal Ocean
The abyssal ocean covers more than half of the Earth’s surface, yet remains understudied and underappreciated. In this Perspectives article, we mark the occasion of the Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin’s […]
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Water World Dynamics: Earth’s Ocean Currents Act As An Expressway To Deeper Depths For Microorganisms
Editor’s note: as we begin to explore ocean worlds – which may be inhabited – we’ll need to understand how currents and other activities within these seas – seas that […]
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An Ocean Engineer-Astronaut Returns Home
Keith’s note: I was just on a media telecon with Astronaut Loral O’Hara who just returned from 204 days on the International Space Station.
Posted inExtremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Hydrothermal Vent Site Expands The Estimates Of Seafloor Mineral Deposits
When scientists discovered a hydrothermal vent site in the Arctic Ocean’s Aurora hydrothermal system in 2014, they did not immediately realize just how exciting their discovery was.