Acquiring Uplink

Salt flat stretching under a star-filled night sky

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Analog Worlds
Field Station

Working the most alien ground left on Earth, Saltmere Array rehearses how we will survey other planets. Every salt pan, lava field and dry valley we reach is mapped, sampled and logged to the array.

Site Entry / 07.412

Uplink Steady

Analog Sites

14

Cores Logged

86

Night Surveys

41

Field Crews

07

We rehearse other worlds

From the salt crust of the high Andes to the basalt shores of the north, every site we work stands in for a place no one has stood. Some keep their secrets for a season, others rewrite our instruments in a single night.

Selected
Seasons

01 / 05

Black Shore

Aerial view of a black sand coastline meeting the sea

[ Basalt Record ]

02 / 05

Quiet Dish

Radio telescope dish on a high snowy plateau

[ Radio Study ]

03 / 05

Ashfall Ridge

Snow-dusted volcanic ridge under heavy cloud

[ Tephra Record ]

04 / 05

Glass Plateau

Milky Way rising above a desert plateau at night

[ Night Scan ]

05 / 05

Halden Ice

Glacial river braiding through a mountain valley

[ Ice Survey ]

Write to the field station. Our crews read every dispatch between night shifts and reply as soon as the next uplink window opens.

Open a Channel
Milky Way arching over a dark desert ridge
A lone surveyor walking into blue fog
Black sand shore under a low grey sky
Blue mountain ranges seen from high altitude
Aerial relief of eroded terrain in monochrome
Dark ridgeline under a pale column of light