Sentences with phrase «rock samples back»

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We brought back moon rocks & moon dust samples.

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.

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.

New research from a team including Carnegie's Erik Hauri demonstrates that oceanic volcanic rocks contain samples of recycled crust dating back to the Archean era 2.5 billion years ago.

We went back to South Africa in 1998, this time to Driefontein Mine, located about 40 miles southwest of Johannesburg, and took water samples, which are easier to work with than rock and less likely to be contaminated.

While visiting France a few years back, geologist John Spray of the University of New Brunswick in Canada chiseled some rock samples from the ancient Rochechouart crater in west - central France.

In the meantime, NASA yesterday announced that it is moving ahead with the next step in its plan to explore Mars with robots and ultimately bring back to Earth a sample of the Red Planet's earth and rock: It will send a new rover to Mars in 2020.

After taking the samples back to the lab, the team sterilized the outside of the rocks, carved away their outer layers, then incubated the exposed samples in 65 °C waters similar to those infiltrating the sea floor at the site — poor in oxygen but rich in chemicals such as dissolved hydrogen, sulfates, acetates, methanol, and dimethyl sulfide.

After measuring and mapping rocks, Lowe brings samples back to Stanford to cut into sections so thin that their features can be revealed under a microscope.

Phobos - Grunt, launched on November 9, was designed to bring back rock and soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos.

A sample - return mission could therefore theoretically carry living organisms back to Earth along with rocks and dirt.

These packs feature samples of rock brought back from the Moon by the NASA the Apollo mission astronauts as well as a meteorite from Mars, which the children are able to handle.

Scientists dig deep into the rock and sand of the sea floor to sample Earth's climate history many millions of years ago, since the oldest ice cores go back only 850,000 years.