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76 relations: Ames Research Center, Anaerobic organism, Archimedes' principle, Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition, Arizona, Asteroid, Astrobiology, Astronaut, Atacama Desert, Bacteria, Canada, Chemistry, Coesite, Comet, Compagnie maritime d'expertises, Concordia Station, Devon Island, Dolomite, Europa (moon), Extraterrestrial life, Extravehicular activity, Extremophile, Florida, Geochemistry, Geomorphology, Glacier, Gravity, Greater Sudbury, Gros Morne National Park, Hematite, Hydrothermal vent, In situ resource utilization, Iridium, Jupiter, Kīlauea, Landform, Lava tube, List of Apollo missions, Lunar regolith simulant, Mars, Mars Desert Research Station, Mars Exploration Rover, Martian regolith simulant, Mauna Kea, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Meteor Crater, Moon, NASA, NEEMO, Oceanic crust, ..., Orbiter, Pavilion Lake, Pavilion Lake Research Project, Perchlorate, Planetary science, Present day Mars habitability analogue environments on Earth, Pseudotachylite, Pyrite, Quartzite, Radiation, Regolith, Rio Tinto (river), Rover (space exploration), Sainte-Rose, Réunion, Solar System, Space suit, Spain, Stishovite, Sudbury Basin, Sulfide minerals, Svalbard, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Valley, Vostok Station, Weight. Expand index (26 more) »
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley.
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Anaerobic organism
An anaerobic organism or anaerobe is any organism that does not require oxygen for growth.
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Archimedes' principle
Archimedes' principle states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially submerged, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces and acts in the upward direction at the center of mass of the displaced fluid.
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Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition
Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition (AMASE) uses Mars analog sites on Svalbard for testing of science questions and payload instruments onboard Mars missions.
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Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.
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Asteroid
Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.
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Astrobiology
Astrobiology is a branch of biology concerned with the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.
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Astronaut
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.
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Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert (Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America (primarily in Chile), covering a 1000-km (600-mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds.
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Coesite
Coesite is a form (polymorph) of silicon dioxide SiO2 that is formed when very high pressure (2–3 gigapascals), and moderately high temperature, are applied to quartz.
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Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.
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Compagnie maritime d'expertises
COMEX (or Compagnie Maritime d'Expertises) is a company specializing in engineering and deep diving operations, created in November 1961 by Henri Germain Delauze and ran by him until his death in 2012.
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Concordia Station
Concordia Research Station, which opened in 2005, is a French-Italian research facility that was built above sea level at a location called Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica.
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Devon Island
Devon Island (Inuit: Tatlurutit) is an island in Canada and the largest uninhabited island on Earth.
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Dolomite
Dolomite is an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate, ideally The term is also used for a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of the mineral dolomite.
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Europa (moon)
Europa or as Ευρώπη (Jupiter II) is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet.
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Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").
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Extravehicular activity
Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside a spacecraft beyond the Earth's appreciable atmosphere.
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Extremophile
An extremophile (from Latin extremus meaning "extreme" and Greek philiā (φιλία) meaning "love") is an organism that thrives in physically or geochemically extreme conditions that are detrimental to most life on Earth.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Geochemistry
Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans.
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Geomorphology
Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek: γῆ, gê, "earth"; μορφή, morphḗ, "form"; and λόγος, lógos, "study") is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features created by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near the Earth's surface.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
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Gravity
Gravity, or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another.
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Greater Sudbury
Greater Sudbury, commonly referred to as Sudbury, is a city in Ontario, Canada.
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Gros Morne National Park
Gros Morne National Park is a world heritage site located on the west coast of Newfoundland.
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Hematite
Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is the mineral form of iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3), one of several iron oxides.
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Hydrothermal vent
A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water issues.
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In situ resource utilization
In space exploration, in situ resource utilization (ISRU) is defined as "the collection, processing, storing and use of materials encountered in the course of human or robotic space exploration that replace materials that would otherwise be brought from Earth." ISRU is the practice of leveraging resources found or manufactured on other astronomical objects (the Moon, Mars, asteroids, etc.) to fulfill or enhance the requirements and capabilities of a space mission.
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Iridium
Iridium is a chemical element with symbol Ir and atomic number 77.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
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Kīlauea
Kīlauea is a currently active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, and the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaiokinai.
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Landform
A landform is a natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body.
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Lava tube
A lava tube is a natural conduit formed by flowing lava which moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow.
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List of Apollo missions
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
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Lunar regolith simulant
A lunar regolith simulant is a terrestrial material synthesized in order to approximate the chemical, mechanical, and engineering properties of, and the mineralogy and particle size distributions of, lunar regolith.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.
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Mars Desert Research Station
The Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) is the second of four planned simulated Mars surface exploration habitats (or Mars Analogue Research Stations) owned and operated by the Mars Society.
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Mars Exploration Rover
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission is an ongoing robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars.
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Martian regolith simulant
Martian regolith simulant (or Martian soil simulant) is a terrestrial material that is used to simulate the chemical and mechanical properties of Martian regolith for research, experiments and prototype testing of activities related to Martian regolith such as dust mitigation of transportation equipment, advanced life support systems and in-situ resource utilization.
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Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii.
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McMurdo Dry Valleys
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of snow-free valleys in Antarctica located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound.
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Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater approximately east of Flagstaff and west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States.
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Moon
The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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NEEMO
NEEMO, an acronym for NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, is a NASA analog mission that sends groups of astronauts, engineers and scientists to live in Aquarius underwater laboratory, the world's only undersea research station, for up to three weeks at a time in preparation for future space exploration.
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Oceanic crust
Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of a tectonic plate.
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Orbiter
An orbiter is a space probe that orbits a planet or other astronomical object.
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Pavilion Lake
Pavilion Lake is a lake in Marble Canyon, British Columbia, Canada.
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Pavilion Lake Research Project
The Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) is an international, multi-disciplinary, science and exploration effort to explain the origin of freshwater microbialites (similar to stromatolites) in Pavilion Lake, British Columbia, Canada.
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Perchlorate
A perchlorate is the name for a chemical compound containing the perchlorate ion,.
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Planetary science
Planetary science or, more rarely, planetology, is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), moons, and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes that form them.
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Present day Mars habitability analogue environments on Earth
Present day Mars habitability analogue environments on Earth are environments that share potentially relevant astrobiological conditions with Mars.
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Pseudotachylite
Pseudotachylite or Pseudotachylyte (original spelling) is a cohesive glassy or very fine-grained rock that occurs as veins and often contains inclusions of wall-rock fragments.
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Pyrite
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron(II) disulfide).
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Quartzite
Quartzite (from Quarzit) is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.
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Radiation
In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium.
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Regolith
Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous superficial deposits covering solid rock.
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Rio Tinto (river)
The Río Tinto (red river) is a river in southwestern Spain that rises in the Sierra Morena mountains of Andalusia.
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Rover (space exploration)
A rover (or sometimes planetary rover) is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of a planet or other celestial body.
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Sainte-Rose, Réunion
Sainte-Rose is a commune on the east coast of the French island and department of Réunion.
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Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
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Space suit
A space suit is a garment worn to keep a human alive in the harsh environment of outer space, vacuum and temperature extremes.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Stishovite
Stishovite is an extremely hard, dense tetragonal form (polymorph) of silicon dioxide.
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Sudbury Basin
The Sudbury Basin, also known as Sudbury Structure or the Sudbury Nickel Irruptive, is a major geological structure in Ontario, Canada.
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Sulfide minerals
The sulfide minerals are a class of minerals containing sulfide (S2−) as the major anion.
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Svalbard
Svalbard (prior to 1925 known by its Dutch name Spitsbergen, still the name of its largest island) is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
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Teide National Park
Teide National Park (Parque nacional del Teide) is a national park located in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).
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Tenerife
Tenerife is the largest and most populated island of the seven Canary Islands.
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Valley
A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.
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Vostok Station
Vostok Station (translit,, literally "Station East") is a Russian research station in inland Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica.
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Weight
In science and engineering, the weight of an object is related to the amount of force acting on the object, either due to gravity or to a reaction force that holds it in place.
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