Sentences with phrase «drilling rock samples»

LITTLE BITS The rover Curiosity (shown) reached the base of Mars» Mount Sharp in September and drilled rock samples.

Not exact matches

During the test, a sensor on the bit measured how much movement, and pressure might be needed for the unassisted drill bit to obtain rock samples.

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.

At the Lake View prospect, 4.5 km southeast of Jubilee, Hammer completed an historical data review and discovered elevated copper - gold results from rock chip samples and limited shallow drilling.

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

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.

Curiosity can scoop dirt, drill rock, sieve the pulverized matter, and hand off baby aspirin - sized samples to the onboard lab.

Sponsored by Shell, the team drilled deep down below the surface into one of these natural CO2 reservoirs to recover samples of the rock layers and the fluids confined in the rock pores.

To recover the first samples of oil there in 2004, engineers floating 175 miles off the Louisiana coast had to send drill gear into 7,000 - foot - deep water and penetrate four miles of rock.

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.

Once the rock samples were drilled, Curiosity's robotic arm delivered the rock powder to the Sample Analysis on Mars (SAM) instrument, where it was used for a variety of chemical analyses, including the geochronology — or rock dating — techniques.

And, finally, the team is recommending that the rover be equipped with technology to drill rocks and create a cache of at least 31 samples for later recovery.

On August 2 drilling reached the fault zone, where scientists plan to install seismic instruments and take rock and fluid samples.

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.

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.

This picture may be about to change in light of a study of deep - sea rocks and sediments led by John Parkes, a microbiologist at Cardiff University in the U.K.. By visiting oil - drilling projects at two sites in the Pacific in 2002, Parkes and colleagues obtained samples as deep as 400 meters beneath the seafloor.

A little over five months since making landfall on the blood - red surface of Mars, NASA's remarkable Curiosity rover is heading towards its first sample - drilling target: a flat rock, laced with pale veins, which may yield clues about -LSB-...]

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

The discovery came from the Mars rover Curiosity, based on the rover's first rock sample drilled from «John Klein» a flat bedrock target, in Gale Crater.

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.

Given that the seismic signature of this material is essentially the same as crustal igneous rocks, there is no way of telling - other than to drill and sample everything between the seabed and the top few hundred metres of unadulterated mantle.

We have instruments on board which are expressly designed to seek evidence of ancient life - what we call «biosignatures» - and we have the capability to prepare samples, drill them out of a rock, seal them in a tube, so that a future mission could go and bring them up - we call that «caching.»

Since this drilling is done in order to analyze the underlying rock strata, the core samples are often kept for reference.

«The next steps will be to assemble a team to drill through the ice into the mountains to obtain the first rock samples from the Gamburtsevs.

The study is based on rock samples reached after five summers of drilling at the highest part of the island's ice sheet.

Responsible for drilling, soil classification, rock coring, well installation and sampling; construction quality assurance; preparation of calculations and reports