sampling
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Lorenz is the mission’s architect, responsible for figuring out the atmosphere’s turbulence, the hardness of the rocks for a sampling drill, and how much light will be available to allow Dragonfly’s sensors to navigate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The licenses cover preliminary surveys and sampling, with future decisions on commercial exploitation needing further bureau approval.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Like other Chinese products that were good enough and temptingly cheap, U.S. companies looking to cut costs are sampling their wares or are interested in getting permission to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
One of the biggest challenges is sampling bias because animals actively guarding eggs are much easier to notice and photograph than species that provide no parental care.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
We did our rock sampling standing up, like Apollo astronauts.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
This is the first show devoted to this period, and it introduces an early Ray Johnson that is quite different from the one known for his later gritty samplings of popular culture.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Because satellite measurements are not direct samplings of pollution particles, researchers must use a statistical conversion process that at least one study showed can involve a lot of error.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2022
“We have been making samplings for other furniture companies. We continue to push forward.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 28, 2021
The mag is touting it as “one of the biggest and broadest samplings of beauty that we’ve ever featured.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2019
Positive results in Martian microbiology were achieved in seven different samplings in two locales on Mars separated by 5,000 kilometers.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
