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  • ...a lens shape; thus making these cracked mounds. Ice being less dense than rock, pushed upwards on the surface and generated these spider web-like patterns ...n). The magnetism left in rocks is a record of the magnetic field when the rock solidified.<ref>http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid
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  • ...nHab to collect pebbles, my planters blew away because I forgot to place a rock in them to weigh them down.  I had to put on my suit, helmet, boots and gl
    13 KB (2,120 words) - 18:08, 3 December 2019
  • ...move faster than over the original terrain. The roads are made from local rock crushed to gravel and spread with automated or remote controlled bulldozers
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  • Many places on Mars show rocks arranged in layers. Rock can form layers in a variety of ways. Volcanoes, wind, or water can produc ...p into large boulders so they are probably much harder. Basalt, a volcanic rock, is thought to in the layers that form boulders. Basalt has been identifie
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  • Figure 4. Crew Engineer Kasey Hilton points at a rock she just collected for crew geologist Ellen Czaplinski Picture 4: Crew Engineer Kasey Hilton points at a rock she just collected for crew geologist Ellen Czaplinski
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  • ...0.1016/j.icarus.2004.05.026</ref> On Mars these glaciers are covered with rock and dust debris a few meters to a few tens of meters thick. Even though Ma ...t lobate debris aprons (LDA’s), around mesas were mostly ice under a thin rock debris cover. <ref name="Plaut, J. 2008">Plaut, J. et al. 2008. Radar Evid
    37 KB (5,472 words) - 16:15, 3 November 2020
  • ...ely collect the material for processing. Simple collection tools including rock hammers, spoons, and trowels have been evaluated in terms of ease of use, a ...of the material, such as cohesiveness and bulk size. The geologist used a rock hammer and a trowel to simulate collection of different material, under sim
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  • ...006 |</ref> When all this rock cooled all the planet would be covered with rock that was as deep as a 24 story building is tall. And this is not made up f Many places on Mars show rocks arranged in layers. Rock can form layers in a variety of ways. Volcanoes, wind, or water can produc
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  • ...s. The further analysis includes gross specimen microscopic evaluation for rock type and gross biological characterization, subdivision of the sample into ...er for scale and sun orientation calculations, respectively (length of the rock hammer is ~11 inches). We also collected biological samples at these locati
    127 KB (20,888 words) - 21:33, 4 October 2019
  • EVA, the primary goal was to collect rock samples with mineral composition to help Arun with his geology research. We
    10 KB (1,717 words) - 17:10, 7 March 2019
  • Results: Some outcrops and rock samples were taken in situ. All the images that where obtain are being proc
    11 KB (1,734 words) - 14:03, 7 March 2019
  • ...360 PRO camera on the ridge around the Hab. While walking, we will collect rock and plant samples for in-situ chlorophyll samples for analysis. We took photos and videos and collected some scientific samples of rock, soil and small green leaves and rocks for chlorophyll analysis. We also sh
    35 KB (5,647 words) - 11:15, 24 March 2019
  • Lith Canyon is an incredible expanse of deep red canyons and high piled beige rock formations. Our Executive Officer was especially excited after returning fr ...the light that has been bounced back and tells the user what minerals the rock is made from. After measuring and collecting the samples in the field, they
    53 KB (9,350 words) - 14:35, 7 March 2019
  • ...face, possibly created these mounds with fractures. Ice is less dense than rock, so the buried ice rose and pushed upwards on the surface and generated the ...reds of kilometers, and in the process it dissolved many minerals from the rock it passed through. When ground water surfaces in low areas containing sedi
    31 KB (4,688 words) - 03:55, 24 January 2024
  • ...Surkov. "Evaluation of the thorium and uranium contents of Martian surface rock-A new interpretation of Mars-5 gamma-spectroscopy measurements." Geokhimiia
    12 KB (1,933 words) - 12:08, 29 November 2022
  • ...ght orange with lots of pockets … handy for holding radios, lens caps, and rock samples. Once you have the suit on and zipped up, you take a radio and hea
    12 KB (2,086 words) - 16:17, 7 March 2019
  • ...ces on Mars show rocks arranged in layers. Layers are also called strata. Rock can form layers in a variety of ways. Volcanoes, wind, or water can produc ...h dikes of magma. Magma might move along, under the surface, breaking the rock and more importantly melting ice. The resulting action would cause a crack
    26 KB (3,975 words) - 15:23, 23 December 2023
  • ...thane, cryptoendoliths who live in rocks and live off of the minerals the rock is composed of, alkaliphiles thrive in high pH, halophiles love salty condi ...of blueberries on the ground. (Universe) The Opportunity Rover used the Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) to grind and examine a blueberry. The team next used a
    80 KB (12,727 words) - 12:45, 26 May 2020
  • ...conjunction with a number of other mineralogical features observed in the rock, may be evidence of ancient Martian microorganisms. Exciting as this is, it
    11 KB (1,851 words) - 08:12, 27 May 2022
  • ..., lighter areas of rust-colored dust, and darker areas of exposed volcanic rock.<ref name=":3" />
    13 KB (2,038 words) - 12:05, 18 September 2019

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