Sentence examples for dirt sample from inspiring English sources

The probe, which includes implements for scooping and gouging the Martian surface, had cooked a dirt sample in a special oven, and the scientists noted that a bit of the sample evaporated around the usual freezing point of water.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has delivered the first Martian dirt sample to its onboard chemistry laboratory, testing out gear that forms the scientific heart of the $2.5 billion robot.

From different dirt samples, they recovered between 5,000 and 2.8 million DNA fragments.

The scoop on the Phoenix's 7.7-foot-long robotic arm will dig three trenches side by side and carry the dirt samples to instruments on the lander.

He scraped together dirt samples and sopped up groundwater to take back to his lab while his out-of-work neighbors were busy manicuring their small plots on the edge of town.

Its big onboard lab, Moma, will check dirt samples for organic chemistry linked to biology.

A ransom note was used to demonstrate ink chromatography, and a microscope helped them review fingerprints, hair and dirt samples from suspects.

Dirt samples were taken in old urban areas around 18 painted frame houses and 18 houses of brick construction.

All 4 STEC O157 H7 positive samples were from beef barn environments: 2 dirt samples, 1 house fly pool, and 1 above-ground surface swab.

Before trucking down the dirt, McKnight took soil samples of the existing infield, which was very yellow and sandy in years past.

When spring came they would have a little money to spend walking the bush, turning over rocks, collecting plastic bags full of dirt to sample the soil.