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ESA PANGAEA course trainees Rosemary Coogan (ESA), Arnaud Prost (ESA astronaut reserve) and Norishige Kanai (JAXA), on the ridge of the Tinguaton crater. Credit: ESA / A. Romeo Larger image

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ESA PANGEA Away Team Awaiting Beam Up From Tinguaton Crater

by Keith CowingNovember 5, 2024November 5, 2024

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NASA Analog Activities to Support Artemis Lunar Operations Deferred to ROSES-25

by Keith CowingOctober 18, 2024October 17, 2024

Map of hydroxyl on the Moon. The color correlates with absorption band position with blue at shorter wavelengths and red at longer wavelengths (from 2.72 to 2.83 microns in the infrared). For comparison the visible spectrum ranges from 0.4 micron (blue) to about 0.7 micron (red). The shorter wavelength OH positions correlate with clay minerals and the longer ones with sulfate minerals, although these positions are not unique. Higher spectral resolution data than the M3 instrument delivered are needed to make definitive identification of the hydroxyl-bearing minerals. Credit: NASA/PSI/R. Clark.

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Sources Of Water And Hydroxyl Are Widespread On The Moon

by Keith CowingSeptember 16, 2024

Collisions between leftover planetesimals drives the redistribution of mass between bodies of different sizes, generating a so-called collisional size-frequency distribution (SFD) dominated, in number, by the smallest bodies.

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ESA PANGAEA 2023 Away Team Training At Bletterbach Mars Analog

by Keith CowingAugust 26, 2024August 26, 2024

The researchers focused on exceptionally well-preserved sedimentary rocks deposited on ancient seafloors in what is now southern Sweden. Credit Unil

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Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA): an Apollo Participating Scientist Program to Prepare the Lunar Sample Community for Artemis

by Keith CowingAugust 26, 2024August 26, 2024

Lake Eyre --NASA

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Away Team Droid Tech: Martian Lava Tube Exploration Using Jumping Legged Robots: A Concept Study

by Keith CowingJuly 15, 2024July 7, 2024

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A Martian Landscape Right At Home

by Keith CowingJuly 15, 2024July 7, 2024

These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024, the 4,200th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

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ESA Astronaut Away Team Practice With The Artemis HULC camera

by Keith CowingJuly 12, 2024June 12, 2025

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Away Team Droid Tech: Robotic Planning Under Uncertainty in Spatiotemporal Environments in Expeditionary Science

by Keith CowingJuly 8, 2024July 7, 2024

Schematic summary of COM-poor hot cores in low-metallicity environments. In the LMC, COM-poor hot cores are currently found only outside the bar region (i.e., lower metallicity, Z), where all of them have high bolometric luminosity (Lbol) and are associated with high star-formation (SF) activity (S24µm,10pc indicates 24 µm surface brightness averaged over a 10 pc radius around each hot core). In the even lower-metallicity SMC, both known hot cores are COM-poor despite having only moderate luminosity and star-formation activity. In contrast, the two known hot cores in the outer Galaxy are COM-rich despite the low metallicity, highlighting that low metallicity alone does not necessarily result in COM-poor chemistry. -- astro-ph.GA

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Away Team Droid Tech: Multi-Objective Global Path Planning for Lunar Exploration With a Quadruped Robot

by Keith CowingJuly 6, 2024July 6, 2024