Sentences with phrase «return soil samples»
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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.
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Many of the soil and stream samples returned indications of gold mineralisation, however they were not followed up.
A rendering of Moon Express's proposed MX - 9 return vehicle, which would return from the moon to Earth with samples of rock and soil.
Because Scarab isn't meant to return home, it will have to analyze soil itself; samples are fed into its reactor, where they are cooked and analyzed for makeup and concentrations.
The next NASA mission planning to use an MMRTG is the Mars 2020 rover, due to be launched as part of NASA's Journey to Mars, to seek signs of past life on the Red Planet, test technology for human exploration, and gather samples of rocks and soil that could be returned to Earth in the future.
The main goal is to grab some dirt from Phobos» surface and return the samples to Earth in 2014 («grunt» means «soil» in Russian).
He and his colleagues drove mining vehicles into the desert to collect soil samples just a few weeks after the storm, and then returned again in 2016 and 2017 to track changes as the moisture dissipated.
Then Fobos - Grunt will extend a robot arm and start collecting samples of regolith — surface soil and rocks — for return to Earth.
Proposed explorer should have better cameras and the capacity to cache rock and soil samples for possible future return to Earth
It is a spacecraft that would scoop as much as 2 kilograms of rocky soil off a 600 - meter - diameter asteroid in 2020 and return the sample to the Utah desert in 2023 for laboratory analysis.
Phobos — Grunt will not only take microbes to Phobos and back, but will also scoop up soil samples and return them to Earth — an ambitious feat never before accomplished on another planet's moon.
Phobos - Grunt aims to land on Mars's larger moon Phobos and return samples of its soil to Earth (grunt is Russian for soil).
These individuals returned to their old sites to collect fresh soil samples in forests from coastal Maine to the Adirondack Mountains, and from near Quebec City to western Ontario.
The mission seeks signs of life on Mars and will test technology for human exploration and gather samples of rocks and soil that could be returned to Earth.