Sentences with phrase «moon rocks»

You wan na buy a piece of moon rock?

Oh, If only arrows could reach the moon then they could shoot it down and rub lunar dust on their bodies and hit one another in the head with moon rocks.

Main movement frustration came when finding certain spots (e.g. digging for moon rocks) where developers needed more of a «buffer zone» within the environment.

Some terrestrial records indicate that the core formed after the oldest moon rocks did.

Your job is to last as long as possible, while destroying moon rocks, trees and basically avoiding death.

On the far wall is a glass case containing ceramic sculptures, named Moon Rock in a Box (Ready to Die)(2012).

Silver in concentrations of 100 parts per billion was found in Apollo moon rocks.

Andrew Steele of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC and his colleagues shone a laser at a sample of moon rock collected by the Apollo 17 mission 40 years ago.

«Scientists explain why moon rocks contain fewer volatiles than Earth's: Earth captured volatile - rich materials in final steps of moon's formation.»

In 2013, NASA started looking into ways to use 3D printers for manufacturing items in space like tools and repair parts, and even experimenting with moon rocks as a material.

In 2002 a NASA intern was sentenced to eight years in prison when he attempted to sell his stolen moon rocks on the Internet.

They include Moon rocks brought back to Earth by the Luna 16 robot spacecraft in 1970.

Easily vaporized elements, known as volatiles, are largely missing from moon rocks but might be sequestered deep in the lunar interior.

The calculations also predicted lunar rocks should have iridium levels of 10 parts per trillion or less — a figure that moon rocks returned by NASA's Apollo missions have already confirmed (Icarus, DOI: 10.1016 / j.icarus.2009.07.015).

So it was a puzzle when Apollo moon rocks suggested the moon still had a magnetic field 4.2 billion years ago, millions of years after the powerful mixing is thought to have ended.

Volkswagen TDI Value Edition with MOON ROCK SILVER METALLIC exterior and LATTE MACCHIATO CLOTH interior features a 4 Cylinder Engine with 140 HP at 4000 RPM *.

An earlier version of this article misstated the last time a spacecraft brought moon rocks back to Earth.

Sex on the Moon is about Thad Roberts, a bold, geeky NASA intern who falls in love — then steals moon rocks to prove it.

«Technique may reveal the age of moon rocks during spaceflight.»

You are looking at moon rocks reflecting the light of the Earth, which shines nearly 50 times as brilliantly in the lunar sky as the moon does in ours.

The character models look like slightly futuristic versions of the NASA space suit and the maps are made up of generic space station objects and generic looking Moon rocks.

And while the agency reported the 517 missing moon rock samples, even more of these precious materials may have gone astray, according to the report.

Moon rocks erode at a rate of 0.04 inches every 1 million years.

Jain envisions creating a whole new industry around moon rocks.

A third, larger spacecraft in 2020 is to gather samples and then bring them back to Earth, the first haul of moon rocks since a Soviet robotic probe's return in 1976.

Only governments own Moon rocks - and we want to change this.

The only Moon rocks that exist on Earth today were obtained over 40 years ago by the U.S. (during Apollo) and the Soviet Union (robotically).

Special sample cases built to hold the Apollo moon rocks lost their vacuum seals because of rims corrupted by dust.

For this, William Whittaker of Carnegie Mellon University led a team of engineers in creating a robotic rover that can dig through concrete - hard moon rock.

Lydia Hallis, an isotope researcher at Glasgow University, UK, notes that oxygen - 17 can vary among Moon rocks, and so three Apollo samples may not necessarily represent the Moon as a whole.

Geochemist Erik Hauri at the Carnegie Institution for Science found water particles trapped inside rock crystals in volcanic moon rocks, a startling sign that the moon has far more water than scientists believed.

Earth and its little lunar sister aren't actually twins, a new chemical analysis of Earth and moon rocks reveals.

Researchers put a sliver of moon rock under a microscope, and the issue was settled instantly.

The Chang» e 5 spacecraft could return invaluable new moon rocks to Earth, but who will get to study them?

Harris also adds that the shower would probably have repeated every year for a few decades until the cloud of moon rocks dispersed.

«Water in moon rocks provides clues and questions about lunar history.»

If the capsule really contains asteroid fragments, as hoped, they will be the first returned from a planetary body since Apollo astronauts hauled back their last load of moon rocks some 40 years ago.

A recent review of hundreds of chemical analyses of Moon rocks indicates that the amount of water in the Moon's interior varies regionally — revealing clues about how water originated and was redistributed in the Moon.

The issue has come to a head over a piece of moon rock now in the hands of a private collector in the US.

That's why Joseph Gutheinz, a former NASA investigator, has spent much of his career tracing moon rocks that have gone missing: he's even staged elaborate stings to lure would - be illegal sellers.

5 In October 2000, FBI agents arrested a man in Arizona who claimed to be selling moon rocks over the Internet.

Some elements, such as potassium and sodium, remained aloft in vapor, accounting for their scarcity in moon rocks today.

«Chinese rover analyzes moon rocks: First new «ground truth» in 40 years.»

The firm aims to mine moon rocks to sell on Earth, and vague laws mean it probably can

Lunar regolith is made from solid moon rock that has been ground down over eons by meteorite impacts.