These scientists live like astronauts without leaving Earth

Image caption: The Moon begins to rise behind the ARADS rover during the 2017 season of field tests in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Image credit: NASA. Article by Sarah Scoles. MIT Technology Review – September 22, 2023. Article was originally published on Undark.

In January 2023, Tara Sweeney’s plane landed on Thwaites Glacier, a 74,000-square-mile mass of frozen water in West Antarctica. She arrived with an international research team to study the glacier’s geology and ice fabric, and how its ice melt might contribute to sea level rise. But while near Earth’s southernmost point, Sweeney kept thinking about the moon. […]

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