Sentences with phrase «first soil sample»

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Its next moon mission: to return a lunar soil sample in 2017; if it succeeds, it will be the first collected since the last Apollo missions in the 1970s.

Using historical aerial photo analysis, soil and methane sampling, and radiocarbon dating, the project quantified for the first time the strength of the present - day permafrost carbon feedback to climate warming.

Researchers have been able to identify animal and plant DNA from soil samples since 2003, but this is the first time they've extracted hominin DNA.

In the first run of the Thermal and Evolved - Gas Analyzer (TEGA), described in a press conference, Phoenix heated a soil sample to 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees C) and then to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Those markers of life were the most bountiful at the first sampling time, and then declined as the soil dried out again.

To determine the levels of PAHs in soil and sediment, researchers first extract the compounds from a sample, a step that can take up to 16 hours and requires large amounts of hazardous solvents.

The study is the first to survey the landscape of bacteria and the genetics of their resistance across multiple aspects of an environment, including the people, their animals, the water supply, the surrounding soil, and samples from the sanitation facilities.

The results include the first reconstruction of the complete genome of a single microbe ever from a complex soil sample.

The rover has since taken its first photos and soil samples in what is expected to be at least a two - year study that may prove Mars once held water — and possibly life as we know it.

SAM is set to analyze its first solid sample in the coming weeks, beginning the search for organic compounds in the rocks and soils of Gale Crater.

By drawing on more than 27,000 samples of soil, tissue, and water from the Arctic to Antarctica, more than 300 scientists at scores of institutions worldwide have created the first reference database of bacteria inhabiting the planet.

Pseudomonas mesoacidophila ATCC 31433 is a Gram - negative bacterium, first isolated from Japanese soil samples, which produces the monobactam isosulfazecin and the β - lactam potentiating bulgecins.

Spinosad, one of its active ingredients, is produced by a bacterium first isolated from natural sources (a soil sample collected in the Caribbean).3 Spinosad demonstrates selective toxicity to the flea's nervous system but has low toxicity to mammals and other nontarget organisms.4 However, as with all medications, sensitivities due to individual animal variation can occur, sometimes resulting in side effects.