Sentences with phrase «pristine samples»
If confirmed, the finding could give scientists an unprecedented look at pristine samples of the original material that bonded to form comets, asteroids and planets...
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This is a lesson taken to heart by NASA's OSIRIS - REx mission, which launches in 2016 to return pristine samples of asteroid Bennu in 2023.
«The launch of OSIRIS - REx is the beginning a seven - year journey to return pristine samples from asteroid Bennu,» said OSIRIS - REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona, Tucson.
If confirmed, the finding could give scientists an unprecedented look at pristine samples of the original material that bonded to form comets, asteroids and planets nearly 4.6 billion years ago.
Asteroids are the oldest, most pristine samples of our early solar system and hold clues about how the current lineup of planets formed from what was once a giant cloud of gas and dust.
By studying the magnetic orientations in pristine samples of ancient meteorites that formed 4.563 billion years ago, the team determined that the solar nebula lasted around 3 to 4 million years.
In Antarctica, a dry desert, the likelihood of corrosion drops significantly, meaning more rocks and more pristine samples.
Subsequent expeditions have attempted to retrieve pristine samples of water from the lake in hopes of discovering life.
Consequently, the sun has hardly had a chance to boil off or otherwise alter the cometary material, making Wild - 2 an especially pristine sample from the genesis of planets.
The purpose of both the rock corer and the Mole is to recover pristine samples that have not been exposed to the oxidizing Martian atmosphere, because oxidation destroys organic matter.
«These are probably the most pristine samples we've ever got from the deep marine biosphere,» says Orcutt.
By studying the sizable and pristine sample of material OSIRIS - REx is expected to bring back to Earth from Bennu, scientists hope to unlock deep secrets about the origins of the terrestrial planets and of life itself.
«New materials can have new physics, and we can determine what those are if we make measurements on a clean, pristine sample (i.e. single crystal).