«Cassini will fly through the moon's plume again later this year,» he wrote, «but only future missions that can undertake improved in situ investigations, and possibly
even return samples to Earth, will be able to confirm Enceladus» astrobiological potential and fully reveal the secrets of its hot springs.»
Now, Cassini mission scientists want to go back and directly look for life, perhaps
even returning samples of Enceladus to Earth.
Not exact matches
We brought home a
sampling from each and have been enjoying an occasional
evening bottle since
returning.
Bayern strolled to the 2 - 0 win in the end, nevertheless, this game can not be taken as a true
sample of how RB Leipzig will fair in the
return fixture or
even in other big games, particularly in Europe.
That wheeled robot is scripted to fetch
samples to be
returned to Earth by a mission that has yet to be blueprinted or
even approved, he notes.
But then something strange happened:
Even though the
sample's temperature continued to rise up to 100o, the camera readout
returned to an icy blue and stayed there.
«Late one
evening, I
returned to retrieve a peanut - buttered slice of bread I'd left briefly in the kitchen and discovered a deer mouse
sampling it.
Hayabusa2 As the successor to the first asteroid
sample -
return mission, Japan's Hayabusa2 hopes to make an
even bigger impact — literally.
Almost all planetary landing missions now in the design stage include seismological instrumentation and some
even include
sample return.
«We can think about follow - up missions across the outer solar system, Mars
sample return,
even missions to Venus or Mercury,» says planetary scientist Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who was also an independent consultant for SpaceX between 2010 and 2012.
What was
even more exciting is that the spacecraft was going to
return about 200 grams of
sample from Phobos» surface!
Perhaps
even more excitingly, Mars 2020 will also be equipped with a new instrument that can convert the carbon dioxide in Mars» atmosphere into oxygen — this is of utmost importance if humanity ever colonizes Mars — and another instrument that will gather and store Martian rock
samples for eventual
return to Earth.
No one doubts that if you are able to
sample multiple times where the errors are normally distributed (or
even known distribution) you can get a better estimate of a population statistic with diminishing
returns, but the question remains: What relevance does this have to the question under discussion?