Sentences with phrase «drilled mudstone»
In samples of fine - grained deposits and drilled mudstone, the Mars rover Curiosity discovered «fixed» nitrogen — a chemical form in which the ultrastrong bond in nitrogen gas, or N2, has broken.
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Preliminary indications are that the rock contains a more diverse mix of clay minerals than was found in the mission's only previously drilled rocks, the mudstone targets at Yellowknife Bay.
The answer, a historic «yes,» came from two mudstone slabs that the rover sampled with its drill.
Two of the samples come from drilling at a place called Sheepbed mudstone and the third sample is generally believed to be representative of the global Martian dust.
Its robotic arm drilled a 2.5 - inch borehole in mudstone bedrock.
Despite these hurdles, several years ago the team discovered chlorobenzene, a ring - shaped molecule containing six carbons, along with other chlorinated organics, using a sample from a mudstone Curiosity drilled at Yellowknife Bay near its landing site in Gale crater.
And here's a nice NASA video describing the instrument package that tests the drilled material extracted from a bit of Martian mudstone: