Sentences with phrase «soil samples into»

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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.

Following an expected soft landing in the northern polar region, Phoenix will study the planet's ice cap and use a robotic arm to dig into the Martian subsurface, collecting ice and soil samples.

If scientists can collect and analyze samples of the terrestrial oxygen embedded in lunar soil, it could provide insights into how Earth's atmosphere has evolved over the eons.

For instance, on one day that hay was cut — two weeks after a major rainfall that shunted diluted manure into the field — only four of 10 tested soil samples hosted Escherichia coli O157.

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.

In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties with samples that had not been treated.

The students went around Bangalore and into the forests of the state of Karnataka, brought soil samples and looked for BioBrick - specific DNA sequences in the soil microbes.

Topp's research team ultimately sampled soil from the plots, extracting DNA, and cloning large fragments of that DNA into a strain of E. coli that is sensitive to most antibiotics.

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.

Using bioinformatics, the computer wades through the information to give us a full complex of what's in that sample — whether it be invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds — anything that may be coming into contact with the water or soil.

What's more, the Rover dug into the soils at Rocknest to provide scientists with the opportunity to sample the newly unearthed portion over the course of several Martian days.

When it comes to testing anything solid, such as food or soil, samples need to be processed into a liquid form.

Warming may push carbon more deeply into the soil The researchers collected samples dating back to 1989 from greenhouses at the Arctic Long - Term Ecological Research site, the longest - running whole system tundra warming experiment.

If a soil sample contains bacterial genes that produce enzymes used to convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into solid carbon, and these genes are active, researchers can conclude that microbes within the sample are actively storing carbon.

But in the freezing and thawing soil layer, sequencing showed that bacteria within the soil samples were producing some intriguing proteins, including enzymes that snip long chains of carbon molecules, like cellulose from plants, into shorter, simpler sugar compounds that the bacteria can use as fuel.

Later, as a young microbial ecologist at Stockholm University in Sweden, she started to catalog the microorganisms she collected during soil sampling trips, deciphering their genetic code so she could understand both their internal workings and how they fit into their underground habitat.

The JCVI teams are focused on a variety of genomic research areas including continued work in synthetic biology; sampling and analysis of the world's oceans, fresh water and soils to better understand the microbes living in these environments; and new analysis on the human genome in the hopes of discovering new insights into disease prevention and treatment.

In the LR experiment, a drop of very dilute aqueous nutrient solution was dropped into a sample collected of Martian soil.

The models the research team used took into consideration various climate data, land use, soil samples, the growth of different crops, irrigation systems, population densities and industries.