Sentence examples for weathered surface from inspiring English sources

Getting under the weathered surface is a high priority because the harsh atmosphere of the planet (which produces its rusty color) is judged likely to destroy any life.

The arm will then reach out to a rock judged suitable and use a grinder to chip away its weathered surface, removing the kind of powdery veil that British scientists say hampered the investigations of Mars Pathfinder.

Unlike the art at Hueco Tanks, these are not paintings, but were formed by scratching or pecking through the dark weathered surface to expose a lighter inner layer of rock, and they are not hidden but out in the open, decorating rock faces of all shapes and sizes.

Powdered samples were prepared with a tungsten mill from slab samples from which the weathered surface had been removed.

What seems to happen, Binzel explains, is that even a gentle gravitational pull from a planetary encounter is enough to churn the asteroid's weathered surface.

Folk art aficionados knew, even without an ironclad attribution, this was a one-of-a-kind form, with monumentality, grace and a perfectly weathered surface.

Similar measurements on bedrock show that fragile landforms on weathered surfaces survived many glaciations.

The weathered surfaces of microplastics might act as a high-capacity carrier with adhering microorganisms and chemicals.

In the coastal mountains of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, there is a juxtaposition of ice moulded landforms at lower altitudes and upstanding summits with weathered surfaces bearing tors.

By measuring terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide concentrations in differentially weathered surfaces on a given tor, we reconstruct the complex exposure and erosion history involving recurring cold-based ice cover.

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) data similar to those measured by ChemCam on MSL were collected for powdered samples, cut slab surfaces, and as depth profiles into weathered surfaces where present.