Sentences with phrase «dozen rock samples»

Not exact matches

The Curiosity landed in Mars» Gale Crater in 2012 and was able to dig out rock samples more than a dozen times between 2013 and 2016 when the drill mechanism stopped working.

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.

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.