Category: News

All the latest news from the world of geocaching.

/ Sarah

Géocaching et la NASA en route pour Mars avec le Perseverance Rover

Enfilez vos combinaisons spatiales, les géocacheurs, car le tout premier objet voyageur interplanétaire est sur le point de décoller.
C’est vrai, le Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover de la NASA est traçable.
Et vous allez pouvoir le loguer !

Grâce à l’équipe de la NASA en charge de l’instrument SHERLOC sur la mission Mars 2020, notre nouvelle mission pour Mars contient un code de suivi, ce qui permet au géocaching de s’envoyer en l’air ! Continuez la lecture pour savoir comment regarder le lancement, loguer le rover, et bien plus encore.

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/ Sarah

Geocaching and NASA head to Mars with the Perseverance Rover

Grab your spacesuits, geocachers, because the first ever interplanetary trackable is about to take off. That’s right, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is trackable. And you’ll be able to log it!

Thanks to the Mars 2020 SHERLOC instrument team at NASA, the newest mission to Mars contains a tracking code, truly taking geocaching out of this world! Keep reading to learn how you can watch the launch, log the trackable, and more.

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/ Brigitte

Nimm die Herausforderung an, die Weltwunder zu erforschen

Nimm die Herausforderung an, die Weltwunder zu erforschen
Die Weltwunder erstrecken sich über alle sieben Kontinente und umfassen einige der erstaunlichsten architektonischen Meisterwerke und die größten Mirakel von Mutter Natur. Beginne am 12. August um 12.00 Uhr UTC eine Reise in alle Ecken des Globus, mache einen Zeitsprung zurück in uralte Zivilisationen und werde der Welterforscher.

Erhalte bis zu drei neue Souvenirs, indem Du Geocaches findest und Stempel sammelst, die Deinen Weltwunder-Pass füllen.

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/ Annika

Welcome to the cache owner dashboard

For the last 20 years, millions of creative, clever, and inspiring hides have been placed—enriching the geocaching gameboard worldwide.

This year, we proudly present the new cache owner dashboard! With access to your geocache stats, filters to quickly see if any geocaches need maintenance, detailed tables, and the latest activity on your hides, cache ownership online is easier than ever before.

This dashboard keeps you up to date on your hides. You can access the cache owner dashboard from the Play menu or your player dashboard on Geocaching.com.

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/ Emily Woerly

New country souvenir, Curaçao, with Geocache of the Week: Curacao’s “Swinging Old Lady”

Traditional
GC2M1VJ
by Raven
Difficulty:
2
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Curaçao
N 12° 06.297 W 068° 56.131

Today, we release a new country/regional souvenir for Curaçao! If you have found a geocache in Curaçao, you automatically receive the souvenir on your profile.

Curaçao sits at the southern end of the Caribbean. Although this small Caribbean island stretches just 40 mi (64 km) in length, it is home to bright and stunning murals, over 30 beaches, and incredible biodiversity from the coral reefs to its highest mountain peak. The island also boasts an incredible linguistic diversity. The locals commonly speak at least two, if not all, of four languages: Dutch, English, Papiamentu, and Spanish.

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