Sentence examples for examining a rock from inspiring English sources

On the other side of Mars, the Spirit, twin of the Opportunity, finished examining a rock nicknamed Adirondack.

Extending from the body is a mechanical arm for reaching out to examine a rock or patch of soil in microscopic detail.

Last Saturday, it finally rolled off its platform and moved 10 feet on its first expedition, to examine a rock that scientists have named Adirondack.

Just before leaving a spot called Cape York on its southbound journey, Opportunity examined a rock called Esperance using its X-ray spectrometer and microscopic imager, finding clear evidence that it held clay minerals that had been altered by water – a whole lot of it.

It's been tasked with examining a football-sized rock whose odd pyramidal shape caught the eyes of NASA scientists--and fueled the imagination of earthlings everywhere who are perhaps a tad too eager for the rover to find evidence of intelligent life on the Red Planet.

This paper examines a new rock mass classification system (RMCR) for Coal Measures Rocks which is based on extensive laboratory testing results.

The first waypoint will give researchers an opportunity once more to examine conglomerate, a rock type made up of small pebbles cemented together by finer material.

He sometimes dismounted on the way to examine a flower or rock and was particularly interested in mosses and lichens, the latter a main part of the diet of the reindeer, a common and economically important animal in Lapland.

The fun at Gusev, geologists say, will be the chance to examine a wide variety of rocks from many places.

It looked promising: "that's definitely a lungfish tooth," he cries, unabashedly dropping to his knees to examine a bright fleck in the rock beneath him, "I reckon we might get lucky and find some bone".

For one, geologists drink lots of beer, typically ending a long day examining rocks with a trip to the nearest bar.