Dr. Balco and his team used a different technique, analyzing rocks in central Missouri for radioactive isotopes of aluminum and beryllium.

To do their job, the rovers carry a number of science instruments that will analyze rocks and soils on the Martian surface and perform other important tasks and studies.

The community was given its name by William Gragg, its first postmaster, because local scientist Wiliam Bobbitt spent time there analyzing rocks.

Geologists analyze rocks all the time.

The machine, which usually analyzes rocks, vaporized the syrup, then pushed it through a 15,000-degree plasma flame - hotter than the surface of the sun.

The mast and cameras were developed at Cornell, and two of the spectrometers for analyzing rocks and soil were supplied by Germany.

The rovers will be identical 300-pound wheeled robots designed to travel more than 300 feet each day over the Martian surface, taking pictures and analyzing rocks.

Their method was developed by analyzing rocks on Mt. Rainier in Washington.

Dr. Pancost and his team analyzed sedimentary rocks from Meishan in southern China for biochemical evidence of the rise and fall of cyanobacteria.

However unlike the previous generation the Curiosity contains an entire inboard laboratory for analyzing the soil and rocks on Mars.