The expedition to Iceland has just ended and the whole group has returned to Italy.
In the last days, activities have continued first on the Fagradalsfjall volcano and then on the Virkisjökull glacier.
As speleologists we are used to exploring ancient caves that were formed thousands or even millions of years ago as a result of long geological, physical and chemical processes.
Read more: The Hraun Project: in search of new volcanic caves in the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland
The first operational phase of the "Colombian Amazon" project, which aims to explore and study a vast area of quartz rock outcrops immersed in a primary tropical forest in the south of the Colombian state, mostly still unknown to man and science.
A chat with Loredana Bessone of the European Space Agency about the encounter between two worlds, caves and space, speleologists and astronauts.
Glaciers like ice caps are huge databases for multidisciplinary studies, just to list a few: glaciology, physics, hydrology, microbiology, biochemistry.
A few days ago, the La Venta team returned to Italy and carried out the first speleological exploration of the Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall as part of the "Hraun" project for the study of the evolution of lava tubes.
Read more: The exploration of the Fagradalsfjall volcano is concluded
