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Rover Engineer at Work – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies
Rover Engineer at Work – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies

Linda Kobayashi, an electrical engineer on the ARADS team, helps install an instrument on the rover from below.

A Life-Detection Mini-lab – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies
A Life-Detection Mini-lab – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies

The Microfluidics Life Analyzer, or MILA, shown here before installation on the ARADS rover, is one instrument looking for signs…

Digging for Microbes – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies
Digging for Microbes – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies

Scientists from the ARADS astrobiology project recently did field work in Chile’s Atacama Desert, learning about the rare microbes that…

Studying Extreme Desert Lifeforms – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies
Studying Extreme Desert Lifeforms – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies

In the middle of Chile’s Atacama Desert, members of the ARADS team take soil samples for their research about the…

Doing Science from a Distance – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies
Doing Science from a Distance – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies

During field tests in the Atacama Desert, the ARADS project develops and tries out methods of doing science from a…

Rover Under the Milky Way – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies
Rover Under the Milky Way – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies

The Moon begins to rise behind the ARADS rover during the 2017 season of field tests in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Recovering Scientific Sensors – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies
Recovering Scientific Sensors – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies

Two members of the ARADS science team recover the sensors that they had buried in the Atacama Desert one year…

Once in a Blue Dune
Once in a Blue Dune

Sand dunes often accumulate in the floors of craters. In this region of Lyot Crater, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)…

Small Satellite Demonstrating Space Debris Removal Set for Deployment
Small Satellite Demonstrating Space Debris Removal Set for Deployment

Expedition 56 flight engineer Ricky Arnold of NASA prepares the RemoveDEBRIS satellite for deployment aboard the International Space Station. The…

Agricultural Fires Seem to Engulf Central Africa
Agricultural Fires Seem to Engulf Central Africa

African agricultural fires light up the continent.