Both landers had mechanical arms, to gather soil samples, and built-in labs to check for biological activity.
The herbicide was highly potent, and tests of soil samples confirmed that he had applied a liberal amount.
The soil samples came from a village some 40 kilometers (nearly 25 miles) from the nuclear power plant.
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Soil samples from around the stone's socket will be analysed and any organic material found radio-carbon dated if possible.
Cereal farmers are taking soil samples and mapping them to within two metres.
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Tests of soil samples taken after the draining yielded no evidence of anthrax.
After reviewing soil samples uncovered by Dostie, a team of Oak Ridge scientists recently traveled to the ranch for further testing.
's atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has reported that soil samples taken at the site showed large traces of processed uranium.
Walking into the former Apollo testing facility, you'll almost certainly catch glimpses of martian rovers, soil samples and an assortment of scientific testing devices.
Some elevated levels have been found in soil samples 25 miles northwest of the plant, although no plans were reported to expand the safety zone.
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Soil samples can be taken in which you can look for either residue of a chemical agent or the product's characteristic of when an agent degrades.
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They had been sent by the company Mande Construction Immobiliere to take soil samples in the Hombori region where it planned to build a cement factory.
In its report to its Board of Governors, the IAEA stated that in analyzing soil samples from the bombed installation, its inspectors discovered traces of uranium.
They are chemical variants of an antibiotic called rapamycin, which Wyeth researchers found in soil samples from Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean in the late 1960s.
Sub-surface soil samples will be analysed by an onboard laboratory.
The mission will involve traversing the planet and drilling six feet into the ground for soil samples, which the rover will be able to examine in its on-board laboratory.
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Using data collected from soil samples, the research team ran an extreme scenario - where kudzu covered all non-urban and non-agricultural soils in the species' range by 2050 - through a "chemical transport" model.
Instead, the Administration would rely on the United Nations, which planned to send in experts to test soil and take samples from victims.
Curiosity will use a drill and scoop, which are located at the end of its robotic arm, to gather soil and powdered samples of rock interiors, then sieve and parcel out these samples into the rover's analytical laboratory instruments.
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They would collect environmental samples such as soil, rubble or vegetation that may have been in contact with the chemical warfare agent and may still contain characteristic degradation products or even traces of it.
The team commented that the scarcity of macroscopic remains was in marked contrast to an abundance of microscopic evidence of maize in the guise of maize pollen samples collected from soil at the sites.
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Thirty-six years after the Viking landers collected soil on Mars, scientists can still make news by declaring that the samples indicate the presence of microbes.
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