Pangaea 2021 theory lessons in Italy

Finding and collecting the best lunar samples will be a major task for the next astronauts on the Moon. ESA’s Pangaea training campaign launches today to equip astronauts with a geologist’s eye on the Moon – humanity’s next space destination to help us understand more about our Solar System. 

Participants of this year’s campaign are ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubinsand EAC engineer Robin Eccleston. Background lessons are followed by field trips to the Italian Dolomites, the Ries crater in Germany and the volcanic landscapes of Lanzarote, Spain, to unravel lunar and martian features on Earth. 

Here Andreas, Kathleen and Robin listen to introductory lessons by Francesco Sauro, Pangaea’s technical course director.