Sentences with phrase «rock samples into»

The vehicle would release a container of rock samples into Martian orbit for collection via spacecraft.

Specifically, they measured hydrogen and its isotope, deuterium (hydrogen with an extra neutron in its nucleus) with ion microprobes, which use a focused beam of ions to sputter ions from a small rock sample into a mass spectrometer.

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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 miners took me into the stopes, the tunnels where they mine gold, to sample the rocks.

Evidence of a past environment well suited to support microbial life came within the first eight months of the 23 - month primary mission from analysis of the first sample material ever collected by drilling into a rock on Mars.

Sponsored by Shell, the team drilled deep down below the surface into one of these natural CO2 reservoirs to recover samples of the rock layers and the fluids confined in the rock pores.

To recover the first samples of oil there in 2004, engineers floating 175 miles off the Louisiana coast had to send drill gear into 7,000 - foot - deep water and penetrate four miles of rock.

To obtain a clearer, quantifiable look at carbon trapping rates in basalt, Giammar collected samples of the rock from Washington state, where researchers previously injected a thousand tons of CO2 gas deep underground into a basalt flow.

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It's widely used in research labs across many disciplines, but samples for analysis typically have to be cleaned, carefully prepared, and in the case of rocks, cut into thin, flat samples.

Radioactive CO2 is pumped into rock samples from the reservoirs where the CO2 is to be stored.

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.

Perhaps even more excitingly, Mars 2020 will also be equipped with a new instrument that can convert the carbon dioxide in Mars» atmosphere into oxygen — this is of utmost importance if humanity ever colonizes Mars — and another instrument that will gather and store Martian rock samples for eventual return to Earth.

To learn more about the conditions under which magma turns into crustal rock, Dygert and his collaborators examined rock samples that were part of the Earth's mantle a hundred million years ago, but are now part of a canyon in Oman.

We've sampled it in every single vehicle FCA shoehorns it into, from sporty Challengers to rock - crawling Jeep Wrangler Rubicons and it never ceases to impress.

Head into town to shop, sample a wide variety of cuisine or rock the night away at Cabo Wabo nightclub.

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.

«The next steps will be to assemble a team to drill through the ice into the mountains to obtain the first rock samples from the Gamburtsevs.