Tricorder Tech: Astrobiological Applications Of μ-mapping X-ray Fluorescence...
Many low-temperature planetary surface processes leave traces of their actions as features in the size range from 0.01 mm to several mm. Syn-sedimentary, authigenic and diagenetic features at the...
View ArticleSmall Sample Handling Workshop
The Lunar and Planetary Institute is accepting applications for a Small Sample Handling Workshop. This training event is scheduled for June 4-6, 2024, in Tempe, Arizona, at Arizona State University....
View ArticleOcean World Exploration: A Breakthrough In Underwater Exploration Technology
Scientists have developed an innovative calibration algorithm for the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).This algorithm significantly enhances navigation precision by utilizing acoustic signals from...
View ArticleESA Tricorder Practice With A Microscope
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut candidate Jessica Wittner and JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, trainees of ESA PANGAEA2023 course, test the microscope connected to the Electronic FieldBook....
View ArticleSecond Workshop On Terrestrial Analogs For Planetary Exploration
The Second Workshop on Terrestrial Analogs for Planetary Exploration is scheduled for August 12–14, 2024, in Flagstaff, Arizona with virtual participation available. More information about the venue...
View ArticleThat Time Star Trek Tents Were Actually Used In Antarctica
Editor’s note: In the Star Trek Strange New Worlds Second Season episode “Under The Cloak of War” there are battle scenes that feature military base with a lot of tents. Those tents were bought by the...
View ArticleGenomics Tricorder Tech: De novo Genome Sequencing And Annotation Of A...
Editor’s note: Oxford Nanopore technology has been used multiple times on the International Space Station (see Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics) to try and help elucidate changes in genomic...
View ArticleESA PANGAEA Away Team Training At Caldera Blanca Volcano
NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson and ESA astronaut Alexander Guerst during their training along the rim of the Caldera Blanca volcano. Credits: ESA / A. Romeo Larger image The post ESA PANGAEA Away Team...
View ArticleAtacama Region As A Planetary Analog For Astrobiology
One possible approach in astrobiology is to use the range of possibilities offered by the Earth to study geographical niches that could be similar to environments observed on planets or satellites of...
View ArticleClimate Change Threatens Antarctic Meteorites
Using artificial intelligence, satellite observations, and climate model projections, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Belgium calculate that for every tenth of a degree of increase in global...
View ArticleESA PANGAEA Away Team Tricorder Practice
ESA PANGAEA 2022-2023 course trainees investigate the mineral content in a rock outcrop, using the spectrometer associated with the Electronic FieldBook. Credits: ESA / V. Crobu Larger image...
View ArticleThe Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS) Project
With advances in commercial space launch capabilities and reduced costs to orbit, humans may arrive on Mars within a decade. Both to preserve any signs of past (and extant) martian life and to protect...
View ArticleAway Team Field Test Of WATSON Biosignature Tricorder In Greenland
During 2019 field tests near Greenland’s Summit Station, a high-elevation remote observing station, the WATSON (Wireline Analysis Tool for the Subsurface Observation of Northern ice sheets) instrument...
View ArticleDry Valleys Of Antarctica As Seen From Orbit
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of valleys west of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. They are so named because of their extremely low humidity and lack of snow and ice cover. This image was acquired...
View ArticleSalas y Gómez Ridge Seamount Away Team Expedition Discovers 50 New Life Forms
International team co-led by a BSC researcher discovers more than 50 new deep-sea species in one of the most unexplored areas of the planet. An international group of scientists, co-led by researcher...
View ArticleVideo: Astronaut, Astrobiologist, and UNC Biology Undergrad Zena Cardman:...
From Spacewardbound Arctic 2008: Is there life in Gypsum Springs? UNC biology undergrad, Zena Cardman, speaks about odd-looking colors downslope from one spring outlet at Gypsum Springs. Video...
View ArticleAn 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. “I have a question that comes out my own experience doing...
View ArticleTricorder Tech: Astronaut Kate Rubins Uses ESA’s Electronic FieldBook Microscope
NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins as she produces science documentation using of the Electronic FieldBook (EFB) and associated science instruments. Credits: ESA / V. Crobu larger image Astrobiology The post...
View ArticlePristine Ecosystems And A Hundred New Lifeforms Discovered Remote Seamounts
An international team of scientists observed 160 species on the Salas y Gómez Ridge that had not yet been known to live in the region and suspect that at least 50 of these species are new to science....
View ArticleOffworld Biology Research Facilities: Life Science Glovebox In ISS Kibo Module
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara treats brain cell-like samples inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox aboard the International Space Station. She was...
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