Sentences with phrase «heated soil samples»
Phoenix's detection was made by performing chemistry experiments directly on martian soil, and it was made by two different instruments: TEGA, which heated soil samples and sniffed for released gases, and MECA - WCL, a wet chemistry lab.
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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).
It slowly heated a soil sample, and then measured the gases released at different temperatures.
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Curiosity's onboard laboratory, the Sample Analysis at Mars, heated up several samples of Martian soil and found nitric oxide, suggesting that ancient Mars had the basic ingredients to support life.
Star of the show at the AGU meeting was the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) experiment, which can sniff the atmosphere and can analyse the gases given off when soil samples are heated to as much as 1100 °C.