Sentences with phrase «in lunar samples»

When water was first discovered in lunar samples in 2008, it was very surprising because from the time Apollo astronauts brought lunar samples, scientists thought that the Moon contained virtually no water.

UV images of the lunar surface show patterns that correlate with the concentration of TiO2 measured in lunar samples collected by the Apollo missions, and so a map of the UV variations can be used to create a map of TiO2 abundance.

If that is the case, the impact theory can't explain the iron deficit in lunar samples.

Calculations show, however, that if this process happened in an absolute vacuum, it would lead to an enrichment of heavy potassium isotopes in lunar samples of about 100 parts per thousand, much higher than the value Wang and Jacobsen found.

Do you still believe that there has been a conspiracy theory dominating science since 1969 to hide the truth found in lunar sampling by Apollo?

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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.

Researchers are using recent advances in imaging to reexamine lunar samples from Apollo 11.

Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft launched on the Space Launch System (SLS) would rendezvous with the captured asteroid mass in lunar orbit and collect samples for return to Earth.

Taylor found he could melt a pile of lunar soil in 10 to 20 seconds.Then he focused a single magnetron on another sample: «With 50 watts of energy I took a one - centimeter block of lunar soil to 1700 degrees Celsius (3100 degrees F) in 10 seconds,» he says.

Eagerly anticipated missions in the coming decade include attempts to bring back lunar samples, a joint CAS — ESA project to study space weather and ground - breaking missions to probe dark matter and black holes.

«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.

If scientists can collect and analyze samples of the terrestrial oxygen embedded in lunar soil, it could provide insights into how Earth's atmosphere has evolved over the eons.

For the new study, the researchers used an extremely precise laser - based method to measure oxygen isotopes in a range of Earth rocks, meteorites and three lunar samples gathered by the Apollo astronauts.

The theft of the safe, which contained 101.5 grams of material, including samples from every lunar landing, was in fact stranger and more pedestrian...

Situated in one of the most secure buildings on the planet, the lab was an implausible target for even the world's greatest crime syndicates — despite the fact that the Apollo lunar samples were stored there and the street price of moon rocks was estimated at about $ 5 million per gram.

Another team of researchers led by Leticia Fimiani of the Technical University of Munich also found 60Fe in lunar soil samples collected by Apollo astronauts.

The bounty of lunar samples brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts included volcanic glass hauled in during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions.

Now new computer simulations might be close to figuring out why lunar samples are in many ways chemically identical to counterparts on Earth and yet missing a few key ingredients.

Now their multi-pronged plan calls for the robotic spacecraft Chang» e 5 to launch in the second half of 2017 atop a Long March - 5 rocket, land on the moon and collect several pounds of lunar samples, then hurl the specimens back to Earth.

The prospect of samples being returned by Chang» e-5 next year — more than four decades since the last ones were snagged by the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976 — is tremendously exciting for lunar science, says Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and astrobiology at Birkbeck College in London.

Their analysis showed a 3 - to 4 - ppm (parts per million) difference between the oxygen isotopic concentrations of the lunar rocks and the terrestrial basalts, but no significant difference between the lunar samples and terrestrial olivine, a common mineral in Earth's subsurface.

To better understand the likelihood of such a scenario in the Earth - Moon system's origin, Richard C. Greenwood and colleagues analyzed the oxygen isotopic compositions of a large set of lunar and terrestrial samples.

«This is the first quantitative sampling that gives hard numbers, real numbers that you can believe,» says Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.

Brown University's Alberto Saal and colleagues measured the ratio of hydrogen to deuterium (hydrogen with an extra neutron) in lunar rock samples from the Apollo missions.

«NASA has been experiencing loss of astromaterials since lunar samples were first returned by Apollo missions,» inspector general Paul K. Martin detailed in the report.

Stegman supports the lunar dynamo theory, having published a 2003 study on it Nature, but cautions that the new results are based on one data point — in this case, one lunar sample.

But even though an Earthling has not set foot on the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972, samples brought back during that mission continue to grace the science community with insights into the nature of Earth's satellite.

These lithologies are consistent with evolved rocks similar to lunar granites in the Apollo samples.

«Origin of organic matter in Apollo lunar samples revealed by new NASA study.»

This is what the team found in one of the lunar samples that was abundant enough for isotopic analysis.

This contamination could produce amino acids during lunar sample analysis in the lab.

Samples of the lunar soil brought back by the Apollo astronauts contain low levels of organic matter in the form of amino acids.

China will attempt to land the Chang» e 3 rover on the moon at year's end, the first lunar surface mission since Russia's Luna 24 sample return lander in 1976.

There was «no significant difference» between the lunar samples and Earth samples in the amount of olivine, a common mineral in Earth's subsurface.

A sample of those are on view in her solo exhibition, Silvery Light at Bruce Silverstein, which fills the gallery with such lunar photographs, of which not a single one she originally captured.

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a 2009/10 glass sculpture by Roni Horn; the 1972 film Landscape for Fire, by Anthony McCall; Lunar, 2011, a sculpture by Spencer Finch; and, created specially for Storm King, Peter Coffin's Untitled (Bees Making Honey), comprising an apiary on the Storm King grounds at which a beekeeper will explain the role of sunlight in the production of honey, samples of which will also be given to visitors.

Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average

b.) Analysis of lunar samples revealed mass fractionation in the Sun that enriches lightweight elements (h and He) and lightweight isotopes of each element at the solar surface: http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1975Data.htm