Mission control

Matteo Massironi, geology professor of structural and planetary geology and ESA research fellow Samuel Payler interacting with the crew in Lanzarote during the Pangaea-X campaign in November 2018.

Pangaea-X is a test campaign that brings together geology, high-tech survey equipment and space exploration. Astronauts, scientists, operations experts and instrumentation engineers work side-by-side to advance European know-how of integrated human and robotics mission operations.

An extension of ESA’s Pangaea geology training, the training involves working with the latest technologies in instrumentation, navigation, remote sensing, 3D imaging and geoscience equipment.

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