Sentences with phrase «with lunar rocks»

Cockroaches were fed and inoculated with lunar rocks for up to 28 days, which did them no harm.

Not exact matches

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.

Oh, If only arrows could reach the moon then they could shoot it down and rub lunar dust on their bodies and hit one another in the head with moon rocks.

Last December Whittaker, who is also a contender with a separate team for the $ 30 million Google Lunar X-Prize, demonstrated the four - wheeled rover, collecting samples of soil and rock guided by a laser camera.

But moon rocks — some of them analyzed with ever more powerful spectroscopy to reveal chemical composition here on Earth and some by robotic craft on the lunar surface itself — are still full of surprises.

The latest theory is that a giant, lopsided plume of hot rock tore through the lunar interior some 3.5 billion years ago, smothering the Earth - facing side with enormous volcanic flows that erupted from the interior.

Brown University's Alberto Saal and colleagues measured the ratio of hydrogen to deuterium (hydrogen with an extra neutron) in lunar rock samples from the Apollo missions.

These lithologies are consistent with evolved rocks similar to lunar granites in the Apollo samples.

Those results set the age boundary for the oldest terrains on Mercury to be contemporary with the so - called Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), a period of intense asteroid and comet impacts recorded in lunar and asteroidal rocks and by the numerous craters on the Moon, Earth, and Mars, as well as Mercury.

Outside of that is a ring in which pyroxene mixes with the standard crustal rocks of the lunar highlands.

«Having global access with modern imaging spectrometers from lunar orbit is the next best thing to having a geologist with a rock hammer doing the field work across the surface.»

In addition to this experience, Teri is a NASA - Urban Community Enrichment Program (URCEP) teacher, trained to conduct interdisciplinary aerospace activities in schools, along with having certification to request and utilize Lunar Rocks in these activities.

Customers can also choose the optional Fine Nappa leather in black or lunar silver with contrasting stitching in rock gray or the design package with diamond stitching.

It is also famed for the striking beauty of its «lunar landscapes» with its interior volcanic rock formations.

The Lanzarote landscape is famous for its strange lunar rock formations, and Playa Blanca holidays would not be the same without a visit to Timanfaya National Park, with its amazing volcanic structures.

Entire mountain ranges are beheaded and then capped with barren rock fields that resemble lunar landscapes, not the richly forested slopes that existed before.