The chief scientist has cancelled the 1900 hr debriefing. The imaging team is trying to interpret the video of the area where the tubes were collected. The samples for a comparison of C12 to C13 are being prepared. Analyses for DNA and RNA are underway. The microbiologists are sampling for bacteria.
Hours pass by.
Everyone is too excited to sleep. Time appears to be endless. There is so much to do before Nivla beams down again. In the wet lab, Naej is investigating a mucilaginous bag surrounding another worm-like organism. One of the tubes is being prepared for dissection.