Sentence examples for back soil from inspiring English sources

Companies enlisted explorers, missionaries and travellers from around the world to bring back soil samples in the hunt for novel compounds.

Back in June, an Israeli special-operations unit had been dispatched to within a mile of the site to take and transmit additional photos, bring back soil samples, and provide Israel with other information it needed for a strike.

Officials involved with the space program told Russian news agencies that they made several failed attempts on Thursday to restart the engines on the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which was supposed to bring back soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos.

The spacecraft, a high-stakes effort to bring back soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos — and to return Russia to prominence in planetary exploration after a long dry spell — was launched from Kazakhstan atop a Zenit rocket early Wednesday.

Shaken by two failed Mars missions last year, NASA spent most of this year trying to restore morale, reform management and formulate a new strategy for exploring the planet over the next 15 years, culminating in flights to bring back soil and rock samples from Mars.

As for the moon, China plans another mission later this year to bring back soil samples.

But let's back up: soil from Mars?

When that plastic is composted back into soil, all of that energy is effectively wasted.

Location information was used to map NPSTs back to soil collection locations and/or library wells.

Red maples lean over verdant riverbanks, their roots holding back the soil and filtering runoff.

It was just sitting there as I scraped back the soil, shining, as if someone had just dropped it".