Sentences with phrase «scooped soil samples»

The group scooped soil samples from seven European and Russian caves known to have housed prehistoric peoples.

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Their probe, called Fobos - Grunt («Phobos soil» in Russian), will not only land on Phobos but also scoop up some samples of the surface and send them 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.

Over the weekend, Phoenix scooped up a shovel - full of ruddy dirt using its 7.7 - foot (2.4 - meter) robotic arm to deposit into its Thermal and Evolved - Gas Analyzer, a suite of tiny, single - use ovens for baking soil and ice samples to study their chemistry.

To people who believe there may once have been life on Mars, this is why the Viking landers in the 1970s found no evidence of it: They scooped samples only from the top few inches of soil.

u «Two Phoenix [Mars Lander] experiments identified calcium carbonates and clays in soil samples scooped up by the crafts robotic arm.

experiments identified calcium carbonates and clays in soil samples scooped up by the crafts robotic arm.

I love Take On Mars, which is silent except for the lonely howl of the Martian wind as you scoop up soil samples and grow potatoes.

Scoop a sample of your soil in a box, send it in, and get a full analysis outlining exactly what nutrients your lawn needs.