They'll start by putting the simulated Mars regolith, which is called baghouse dust. From Wordnik.com. [Universe Today] Reference
In addition, because the regolith is a superinsulator, other heating methods like solar, laser or electric heating only heats the surface. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Apollo program, lunar dust or "regolith" as the geologists like to call it proved to be a significant challenge. From Wordnik.com. [Next Generation: Student Engineering] Reference
O) Where is the empirical evidence of such impact effects in dust aka regolith)?. From Wordnik.com. [LCROSS Confirms "Buckets" of Water on the Moon | Universe Today] Reference
"seismic shake" strong enough to bring fresh material called "regolith" to its surface. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Geomorphologists refer to these accumulations as regolith. From Wordnik.com. [Weathering] Reference
He slumped down onto the regolith and waited for Venator's men. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Its plateau of grubby brown regolith was broken by twin calderas. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
Fragments lay far-scattered, shallowly buried under the regolith. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Two newslogs thought she should have sifted for DNA samples from the regolith. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Staying on the surface, Doug followed the rille as it wound across the regolith. From Wordnik.com. [Moonwar]
Pressure suit rips repaired with some kind of epoxy, leaking blood into the regolith. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
The next footprints on the lunar regolith were therefore thought likely to be Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [NASA Watch: Marc Boucher: February 2010 Archives] Reference
Another struck a boulder, glanced off, and skittered murderously low above the regolith. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Another body came flying out, tumbling like a pinwheel, landing helmet-first on the regolith. From Wordnik.com. [Moonwar]
Dozens of prints, overlapping, exposing the bright sandy-looking under-layer of the regolith. From Wordnik.com. [Empire Builders]
The events of the past day had sure been a lot more exciting than drilling for regolith samples. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
A single line of disturbed regolith led back to Airlock 8, the northwest exit to the new tophouse. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
The outlines of all of these features consist of elevated accumulations of coarse regolith fragments. From Wordnik.com. [Weathering] Reference
Erosion is defined as the removal of soil, sediment, regolith, and rock fragments from the landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Soil erosion and deposition] Reference
The edge of a solar farm lay before them, with sifters combing the regolith on the northern periphery. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
It actually blew away this -- what appeared to be a hard white surface beneath the rusty regolith of Mars. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2008] Reference
The structures on the surface were gone from normal view, pulverized into regolith across a span of aeons. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Many years ago, the first Mars colonists devised a form of art that uses the native regolith as its medium. From Wordnik.com. [A King of Infinite Space]
They argue that all elements can be extracted from such a regolith provided there is enough available energy. From Wordnik.com. [Biophysical economics] Reference
She could see Gordette's tractor trail easily now that there were no other cleat marks chewing up the regolith. From Wordnik.com. [Moonwar]
It was three decimeters long, made of green glass, and was half-embedded in the regolith where the body had fallen. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
A road, little more than regolith smoothed and roughly graded, wound up over the kilometers toward this halting place. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Pecos scanned the dust for solar ionization build-up, which detects how recently regolith has been exposed to sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Doug steered the tractor automatically, following the bright cleat marks in the eons-darkened regolith, remembering, remembering. From Wordnik.com. [Moonwar]
She put it in a large bag, then took her samples of the regolith: away from the body, within the body print, within the bootprints. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
One log thought she should have taken the temperature of the regolith beneath Zeiss, to determine exactly how long he had lain there. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Unstable, clayey regolith has developed on the underlying coal bearing strata but is largely absent from Ecoregions 70c, 70d, and 70f. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)] Reference
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