Caves 2013: Discovery
Members of the CAVES 2013 crew talk about exploring inside the Sa Grutta cave – comparing their experience to arriving on the surface of a planet like Mars, where you don’t quite know what to expect.
CAVES, ESA’s unique training programme for astronauts, takes place over a couple of weeks in Sardinia’s Supramonte. Six astronauts spend two weeks deep in caves, in the dark and cold. They are separated from the outside world, doing scientific research and daily tasks together, as a group, just like in space. Moving in the cave system is also comparable to spacewalking with the use of harnesses and safety devices.
Read more about CAVES on our dedicated website (esa.int/caves) and read more about the CAVES 2013 campaign in the blog (blogs.esa.int/CAVES2013)
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(Italian subtitles also available)
Wow, I didn't expect to hear someone speaking Italian, awesome! esa is grat and whenever I mnow af some project in wich my nation is involve I gain a little bit of trust I had lost because of politics.
That cave looks amazing!
Nice pictures, which kind of light did you use for take this pictures?
The lighting that one head lamp can make isn't much. I wonder just how dangerous it is moving around in a cave, when the lighting possibilities are this low.
Where is it?