Sentences with phrase «collect rock samples»

The Mars 2020 mission will use the next generation of science and landing technology to collect rock samples for possible return by a future mission.

If it spots elements of interest, it will approach and use a drill on its robotic arm to collect rock samples from as deep as 5 centimetres.

In a statement, Snelling said he was «gratified that the Grand Canyon research staff have recognized the quality and integrity of my proposed research project and issued the desired research permits so that I can collect rock samples in the park, perform the planned testing of them, and openly report the results for the benefit of all.»

In the early 1980s we helped collect rock samples from the site, which were then analyzed to identify the iridium - rich clay layer that is now understood as the fallout from the impact of a comet or asteroid.

Essentially a duplicate of the Curiosity rover now on Mars, this robot has been tasked with searching for evidence of past life and collecting rock samples for eventual return to Earth.

Researchers had actually collected rock samples from the Cardiola Formation long ago, Ausich said.

The group spent six years exploring Himalayan Nepal and Tibet, examining strata, and collecting rock samples.

Cool Fact: Ed has collected rock samples from all over the world, including Greenland and South Africa.

Not exact matches

Andrew Steele of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC and his colleagues shone a laser at a sample of moon rock collected by the Apollo 17 mission 40 years ago.

Dr Bayrakci and the team will collect cores of rocks and take fluid and microbial samples using two specialist robot drills.

After inspiring millions of people worldwide with its successful landing in a crater on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT), Curiosity has provided more than 190 gigabits of data; returned more than 36,700 full images and 35,000 thumbnail images; fired more than 75,000 laser shots to investigate the composition of targets; collected and analyzed sample material from two rocks; and driven more than one mile (1.6 kilometers).

Last December Whittaker, who is also a contender with a separate team for the $ 30 million Google Lunar X-Prize, demonstrated the four - wheeled rover, collecting samples of soil and rock guided by a laser camera.

Evidence of a past environment well suited to support microbial life came within the first eight months of the 23 - month primary mission from analysis of the first sample material ever collected by drilling into a rock on Mars.

The insight from Sudbury is complemental, the geologists say, because you can directly observe the rocks with your own eyes and collect loads of samples for detailed study in the lab.

A research team led by John Tarduno of the University of Rochester in New York went to Australia's Jack Hills and collected ancient samples of rock containing the crystallized mineral zircon.

Here, University of Delaware researcher Jessica Warren measures the distance between rock samples collected from a peridotite shear zone.

The expedition would also provide an opportunity to collect samples from the rock's core for analysis.

LIFE AND DEATH Rock samples collected from the Chicxulub crater during a drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year suggest that microbes returned to the site within hundreds of years of the dino - killing impact.

A team of geologists led by David Clague then used a tethered underwater robot, the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts, to dive down to the seafloor, fly around the vents, and collect video and samples of rocks and hot water spewing from the chimneys.

To obtain a clearer, quantifiable look at carbon trapping rates in basalt, Giammar collected samples of the rock from Washington state, where researchers previously injected a thousand tons of CO2 gas deep underground into a basalt flow.

Another part of the helicopter's job would be to check out the best places for the rover to collect key samples and rocks for a cache, which a next - generation rover could pick up later.

To evaluate each influence 3.26 billion years ago, geoscience Professor Clark Johnson and Satkoski collected samples from South Africa and compared isotopes in two forms of a rock called barite.

Using samples collected from the Liwu and Wulu river basins in Taiwan, which run off the central range, the team compared the radiocarbon profiles of organic carbon in the rock with the soil directly above it.

The Ritacuba Negro glacier in the Colombian Andes, where rock samples were collected as part of this study.

For 2 months, they will work day and night in an attempt to go down another kilometer, looking for changes in rock types, cataloging microfossils, and collecting DNA samples (see figure, below).

Then Fobos - Grunt will extend a robot arm and start collecting samples of regolith — surface soil and rocks — for return to Earth.

Geochemists explored the outcrop in a tiny submersible vehicle, hoping to collect samples of the warm fluids that emerge from cracks in the rocks; they didn't count on finding dozens of octopuses huddled around the cracks.

UNSW Australia study author and Ph.D. candidate Katarina David (left) preserves samples of moist rock collected by drilling a 300 - meter deep core through the layers of sandstone and claystone near Sydney, for later testing in the laboratory.

NASA plans to hone its sample - return skills in 2016 with OSIRIS - REx, a boxy spacecraft that will land on an asteroid, collect chunks of rock and dust, and then return to Earth.

They spent nearly 21 hours on the lunar surface, collecting samples of rock and soil and setting up remote instruments.

Alan Stern, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, warned in July that at least one of the future Mars probes may have to be scrapped to free up funding for a much costlier mission, tentatively scheduled for the 2018 — 2020 period, that would collect samples of Martian rock and bring them to Earth.

Rock sampled plants here, but the real collecting was done in the 1970s by Yin and the institute's survey team.

The researchers were permitted by the National Park Service to collect one new rock sample to analyze its magnetic properties, and added this to existing measurements made over 30 years ago from a few other sections of the tower.

Furthermore, scientists estimated the amount of helium released by the rocks through rock fracture experiments in the laboratory using rock samples that were collected from around the earthquake region.

So, in April 2015 MBARI scientists sent down an SUV - size remotely operated vehicle to take footage of the vents and collect samples of the surrounding seawater, mud, rocks and animals.

The team, lead by Geophysical Laboratory's Dominic Papineau, collected dozens of rock samples from an area called the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt in northern Québec, on the eastern shore of the Hudson Bay.

They collected a handful of rocks and other samples that were returned home for scientists to study.

According to NASA, the tools that geologists use to collect core samples or to chip of rocks on Earth are not safe to be used in space.

Curiosity will look for signs that microbial life once existed on Mars, and will also collect core samples of rocks on Mount Sharp and the Gale Crater.

Scientists studied the rock samples Curiosity collected over the course of its first three and a half years exploring the Red Planet, especially the samples collected on the varying depths of the dried - up lake in Gale crater, and they found that the lake was rich in minerals that could have supported life.

Curiosity rover obtains the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet.

This animation depicts NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drilling a hole to collect a rock - powder sample at a target site called «John Klein.»

Curiosity's drill has used a combination of rotary and percussion action to collect samples from six rock targets since the rover landed inside Gale Crater in 2012.

The discovery, made after analysis of samples collected from a large mass of exposed rock in northwestern Quebec known as the Canadian Shield, has been detailed in a study published Friday in the latest edition of the journal Science.

The teeth were first discovered by undergraduate student Grant Smith while sifting through rock samples collected from the Jurassic Coast.

In previous work, the research team analyzed samples of ancient rock collected from the Klamath Mountains of Northern California to find that the rocks and surrounding trees there held large amounts of nitrogen.

We have found this cliff and collected samples from the layers of sedimentary rocks.

Good thing evil CEO Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman: Stolen, Rock of Ages) built in some genes that make the transformed creatures respond to a radio signal, and that she just happens to have access to the transmitter atop the Sears Tower in Chicago to send out the call and bring the monsters right there and somehow collect genetic samples from them.

Samples of speleothems, ancient cave deposits, wall rock and video records collected by The Cambrian Foundation provided necessary data to scientists.

In addition, Sachs allows followers to download an up - to - date «Moon Rock Report» that includes detailed information on each collected sample.