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Midwinter
Midwinter crew portrait. Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA ESA-sponsored medical doctor Beth Healey writes about the midwinter celebrations at Concordia: Midwinter is a traditional Antarctic celebration and can...
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Life by moonlight
Searching for life by Moonlight. Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA/B. Healey ESA-sponsored medical doctor Beth Healey wrote this blog post: I last saw the sun 63 days ago 4 May as it crept below the horizon for...
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Ask Me Anything!
Warming up for the Reddit AMA. Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA Three Concordia crewmembers, Lorenzo Moggio, Giampietro Casasanta and Beth Healey answered questions in a mammoth "Ask Me Anything" for Reddit...
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The return of the Sun
Beautiful morning. Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA-B. Healey Night fever. Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA-B. Healey The long polar night lasted 105 days at Concordia Station, far longer than an Accident and Emergency...
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ESA-sponsored medical doctor Beth Healey at Concordia research station made this video for the I'm an astronaut, get me out of here!" educational campaign that will tie in with ESA astronaut Tim...
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From 18:00 CET ESA-sponsored Medical Doctor Beth Healey will be answering questions via Twitter. Send her a message to @BethaHealey via Twitter. This initiative is part of World Space Week 2015 and...
View Article270 days without fresh supplies…
After nine months of isolation, the crew at Concordia research station eagerly awaited the arrival of fresh supplies and new faces. ESA-sponsored medical doctor Beth Healey set up her camera to record...
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Fit for Antarctica
ESA sponsored medical doctor Beth Healey writes: One of the most important things for us at Concordia is staying fit. Staying fit is easier said than done, especially during the long polar night. At...
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New arrivals
Floris van den Berg arrives at Concordia. Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA-B. Healey ESA-sponsored medical doctor Floris van den Berg has arrived at Concordia research station. Floris has completed the long...
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A long way home…
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA-E. Kaimakamis A tradition at Concordia research station is for all members of the winter crew to fashion a sign pointing to their home town. They are placed outside as a memento...
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Preparing for the traverse
Beth Healey enjoying the Sun on the coast. Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA-B. Healey ESA-sponsored medical doctor Beth Healey has just left Concordia research station after a year, only to start preparing to...
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Happy Christmas from the Traverse
Traverse from the coast to Concordia. Credits: ESA-K. Oldenburg ESA-sponsored medical doctor Beth Healey is returning to Concordia over land, a 1300-km trek lasting 10 days... Update 2: We have made it...
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Part 2. The Arrival
Beth in the cockpit on the way to Antarctica As the plane roared off from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, I realised with excitement and a little trepidation that our Antarctic adventure was finally...
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Part 1. The Induction
Beth Healey as young explorer Some things change you forever. They put your life on a trajectory you had never planned, different from those of all your friends – and you are propelled into adventure....
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Prologue
Step by step, humankind expands its presence, reaching for the stars. It is a question of time. One day the ship will blast off, taking a human crew on a journey through space to the planet Mars. Step...
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Part 4. Dark Mars
The days quickly got shorter and shorter. Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA–B. Healey When winter comes to Concordia you’d better be prepared. Before us were nine months of complete isolation, four of these in...
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Part 3. White Mars
Floor plan of the Concordia station. Credits: IPEV I had travelled across the world to come to my new home, Concordia Station. Now I had to get to know the place, how things worked here, and find my...
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ESA has teamed up with the British Antarctic Survey to study how humans survive conditions resembling a long duration spaceflight or staying on the Moon or Mars. Fortunately, there is somewhere on...
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