Sentences with phrase «of rock dust»

Not exact matches

Upon their re-entry into the planet's atmosphere (and, you know, the country), Aldrin and company had to declare their cargo — moon rock and moon dust samples — and confirm that none of them had any bouts of illness while en route.

The agency's European counterpart, ESA, has suggested that moon rock and Mars dust could be used to 3D print structures and tools, which could significantly reduce the cost of future space missions because less material would need to be brought along from Earth.

Our third expedition will bring back samples of lunar dust and rocks that everyone can own, providing scientists with a new source of lunar materials for research, and making these treasures from the Moon available to collectors and commercial purposes.

She landed in the dust of the rocks in a heap, startled and winded.

A man at the end of his rope decides to hope against all the odds, to remember the Rock when he feels himself to have been left in the dust: «For I shall again praise him, my help and my God.»

«Passion for Democracy» Method: Swizzle in a rocks glass with crushed ice, garnish with an orchid and a bouquet of mint and optional dusting of powdered sugar.

The next day, simply sift the cocoa powder on to a flat plate, and have the paper cases arranged and ready, then take a heaped half teaspoon of the truffle mixture and either dust each one straightaway all over, which gives the truffle a rough rock - like appearance, or dust your hands in cocoa and roll each piece into a ball and then roll it into the cocoa powder if you like a smoother look.

Enveloped in dark, rich chocolate, the Champagne Pop Rock Truffles are dusted with a light snowfall of cocoa.

Every light on this side of the town Suddenly it all went down Now we'll all be brothers of the fossil fire of the sun Now we will all be sisters of the fossil blood of the moon Someone must have set «em up Now they'll be working in the cold grey rock Now they'll be working in the hot mill steam... Now they'll be working in the concrete In the sirens and the silences now All the great set up hearts All at once start to beat After tonight if you don't want this to be A secret out of the past I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ash I can feel his ghost breathing down my back I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever Real truth about it is No one gets it right Real truth about it is We're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off It's got the maps or if it's lost We will try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever Come on let's try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever

It reminds me of a poem that my mom had hanging in our house and I've always been so fond of it - Cleaning and scrubbing can wait til tomorrow for babies grow up, we've learned to our sorrow So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep I'm rocking my baby And babies don't keep.

The particles of rock and ice in these belts vary in size from the tiniest dust grain, smaller than a millimetre across, up to asteroid - like bodies many kilometres in diameter [2].

The mudball hypothesis is testable, he adds, by searching for a «dust signal» in rock formations of the appropriate age.

The icy deposits appear to be patchy and thin, and it's possible that they are mixed in with the surface layer of soil, dust and small rocks called the regolith.

All in all, earthlings have retrieved a total of 843 pounds of rock and dust from the moon.

Now Dorian Abbot and Raymond Pierrehumbert of the University of Chicago have used climate models to study how dust from volcanoes and the weathering of rocks would affect the thaw.

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

They could be anything from tiny dust grains to big chunks of rock the size of asteroids or planets.

Photo: Julia Galef I just finished shaking the last of the desert dust out of the bags I brought to this year's Burning Man, an annual week - long event in Nevada's Black Rock Desert that takes its name from the burning of a giant effigy at the end of the week.

Consider life on Earth 440 million years ago: a grayish landscape of rocks, sand and dust, inhospitable to most life - forms.

Hallis previously used hydrogen isotope ratios in volcanic basalt rocks to conclude that Earth's water may in fact have been part of the very dust cloud from which the planet first condensed.

The deposits are exposed in cross section as relatively pure water ice, capped by a layer one to two yards (or meters) thick of ice - cemented rock and dust.

The observable material is a so - called debris disk consisting entirely of dust and large rocks, some of them possibly as large as planets.

The resulting rubble from Phobos — rocks of various sizes and a lot of dust — would continue to orbit Mars and quickly distribute themselves around the planet in a ring.

In these disks, dust is coalescing and tiny chunks of rock are colliding to become larger masses of matter and, over the course of millions of years, planets.

The team's findings were drawn from detailed analysis of sedimentary rock in the Chinese Loess Plateau, an area of East China that has been collecting dust for at least the past 8 million years.

The meteors are bits of dust and rock from the tail of Comet Tempel - Tuttle, which does a loop around the sun every 33 years.

Such dust belts typically contain a spectrum of rocks of different sizes, and the distribution of dust strongly suggests at least one Mars mass worth of rocks 10 meters (30 feet) wide or smaller and up to several Earth masses of material if larger rocks are present, which Lisse says is very plausible but more speculative.

Instead the lander shot a small metal pellet into the rock and collected about one - tenth of an ounce of dust.

Lead author, Dr Jay Farihi (UCL Physics & Astronomy), said: «Building rocky planets around two suns is a challenge because the gravity of both stars can push and pull tremendously, preventing bits of rock and dust from sticking together and growing into full - fledged planets.

We'll be looking at SDSS 1557 next with Hubble, to conclusively show the dust is made of rock rather than ice.»

«A thick lump of dust, rocks, and gas» is how astronomer Jane Greaves of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland describes the new protoplanet she reported on in April at a meeting in Belfast sponsored by the Royal Astronomical Society.

The dust — more accurately, crystallized silicates, the constituent material of rocks on Earth — needs a lot of heat to form, but comets are mostly frozen water.

The researchers compared the results of small - scale numerical simulations of colliding rock and dust particles to the composition of meteorites.

NASA plans to hone its sample - return skills in 2016 with OSIRIS - REx, a boxy spacecraft that will land on an asteroid, collect chunks of rock and dust, and then return to Earth.

Like asbestos, these naturally occurring fibers are natural components of rocks and soils and a potential source of exposure especially if these fibers become airborne through natural erosion or human activities producing dust.

Much of this oxygen went into rocks, leading to the rusty red dust that covers the surface today.

They are a dirty, messy mix of dust, volcanic ash and whatever else had the misfortune of getting trapped in the ice — plus a sprinkling of rocks and meteorites.

«Even a rock of normal material couldn't do anything but turn into dust.»

NASA regularly loans moon rocks, meteorites and samples of comet dust to museums, researchers, educators and institutions around the world.

All told, scientists studying meteorites, moon rocks and cosmic dust have discovered over 70 new minerals never seen on Earth — 15 of them from Allende alone.

A synestia has an exterior region marked by clouds of molten rock and dust, all at a scorching 2000 °C or hotter.

The gases all originate from the hodgepodge of ices, rock and dust that make up the nucleus.

Philip Bland at Curtin University in Australia and Bryan Travis at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona modelled the formation of these rocks and found when ice, dust and mineral grains came together, they wouldn't have been compacted straight away (Science Advances, doi.org/b9p6).

The rings are not solid but rather are made up of particles of ice, dust and rocks.

Comets are made of ice, frozen gas, dust and rocks.

Comets are clumps of rocks, ice, dust and frozen gases.

I will present new numerical models that treat dust coagulation / fragmentation, dust dynamics, simple gas - grain chemistry, and vapor diffusion simultaneously, and explore the connection between the water vapor in the disk atmosphere and the size - distribution and ice - to - rock ratios of the dust grains growing in the midplane.

A long time ago, Mars wasn't the barren lump of rock and dust that it is today.

And in between those large, spherical bodies lie irregularly shaped objects, ranging in size from huge asteroids to rock - sized meteoroids to tiny particles no larger than a grain of dust.

Rock dust acts as a kind of fertilizer, and may replace other fertilizers that depend on fossil fuels.