in situ

"We have never seen a ten-meter-size asteroid in situ, so we don't really know what to expect and how it will look," says Santana-Ros, who is also affiliated with the University of Barcelona.

Potential bidders will be allowed to see it in situ, he said, but they won’t be allowed to use it.

In recent years, Puglia has started to export its culinary heritage—burrata, anyone?—but many of the region’s specialties are still best sampled in situ.

Their bodies have bound feet or missing heads; many corpses were exhumed and burned in situ.

Researchers can now pinpoint active degraders in situ, map the progression of glycan breakdown through space and time, and quantify turnover rates in complex communities.