Sentences with phrase «data about the planet»

Grinspoon envisions a balloon - borne craft that would drift through Venus's dense atmosphere, sniffing the gases throughout its journey to gather data about the planet's climatic history.

An upstart startup says its «Doves» — camera - equipped satellites the size of shoeboxes — can make up - to - date data about our planet available to everyone

This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST - 1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets» diameters, masses, and distances from the host star.

The result is the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, which acts as a central storage venue for data about these planets.

This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST - 1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets» diameters, masses and distances from the host star, as of February 2018.

It's often been said that while we can only gather new data about the planet at the rate of one year per year, rescuing old data can add far more data more quickly.

Not exact matches

About 2,500 of the world's best thinkers will explore the profound changes wrought by a networked planet, big data, and technology.

These last passes will reveal new data about Saturn, its atmosphere and clouds, the materials making up its rings, and the mysterious gravity and magnetic fields of the gas planet.

Cliff Beek, Cloud Constellation Corporation president, Nicole Stott, Hypercubes, and Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Group, talk about using satellites to provide data to measure the planet and manage the information.

At a hearing yesterday in front of the Senate Judiciary & Commerce Committee in Washington, Mark Zuckerberg spoke about how the biggest social media company on the planet leaked reams of user data.

And being perhaps the world's most comprehensive aggregator of economic data for the largest and most advanced economies on the planet — and having tracked such data for the last five decades — one might suggest that the OECD knows a thing or two about improving productivity and making an economy grow.

Launched in October 1997, the Cassini mission to Saturn included a sophisticated robotic spacecraft that orbited the ringed planet and provided streams of data about its rings, magnetosphere, moon Titan and icy satellites.

In my last column, «Three Numbers that Predict the Future of the Planet», I wrote about the state of the climate crisis and focused on three key data points that...

Although he was talking about the state of the planet, his words are also apt on the topic of racial justice: If you look at the data that shows how racial violence has evolved throughout history and aren't frustrated or exhausted, then you probably don't understand the full story.

While the Cassini spacecraft is gone, its enormous collection of data about Saturn — the giant planet, its magnetosphere, rings and moons — will continue to yield new discoveries for decades to come.

It will take some time to get photos and other data back from the craft, but researchers hope this will help them learn more about the planet's atmosphere and interior.

In a new paper, two astrophysicists argue that these questions may soon be resolvable scientifically, thanks to new data about the Earth and about other planets in our galaxy, and by combining the earth - based science of sustainability with the space - oriented field of astrobiology.

In addition, 55 Cancri e transits its star, meaning it crosses the star's face as seen from Earth, casting a shadow that astronomers can data - mine for information about the planet's possible atmosphere and surface.

At the same time, the new data set now significantly reduces the probability the comet will impact the Red Planet, from about 1 in 8,000 to about 1 in 120,000.

As they ponder new data, we'll learn even more about the planets, and how closely related they just might be.

Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers estimated the rates of past star and planet formation in the universe, which is now about 13.8 billion years old.

Take the long view of this island Earth: this well - built NASA Web site provides easy access to gorgeous satellite imagery and scientific data about our home planet.

These missions were aimed at gathering data and answering questions about the red planet and its past that may yield further insight into Earth's past, present, and future.

The new data also give scientists clues to a long - standing mystery about the atmospheres of giant outer planets.

The New Horizons spacecraft, which buzzed the dwarf planet on July 14, has so far sent back only about 20 percent of the data it acquired from the Pluto system.

Named Juno, the NASA orbiter will collect data that could elucidate the planet's origins and evolution, gather details about its long - lived storm (the Great Red Spot) and send back the highest - resolution color images of Jupiter to date.

This last data grab is a bonus after a mission that is already changing theorists» views about how comets and planets arose early in the solar system.

«I am just really excited about the idea that we can get this data all over the planet and be able to diagnose what's going on with the water cycle.»

A new body of data emerging from such questions threatens to upend what geologists thought they knew about our planet.

This artist's concept shows what each of the TRAPPIST - 1 planets may look like, based on available data about their sizes, masses and orbital distances.

Cassini was programmed to collect science data while close to the planet and turn toward Earth to make contact about 20 hours after the crossing.

Howarth said he is particularly concerned about fracking emissions because recent data indicates that the planet is entering a period of rapid climate change.

A proposed SpaceX mission to Mars, called Red Dragon, would offer NASA data about how the lander's retrorockets (depicted in this artist's concept) interact with the planet's surface.

The GRAIL data also suggest that astronomers should not use measurements of the basins on the nearside of the moon to draw conclusions about the rate at which craters struck the planets of the inner solar system 4 billion years ago, the researchers report November 8 in Science.

Planets with extremely tight orbits offer scientists a wealth of data: For instance, each week Kepler 78b circles its star about 20 times, giving researchers numerous opportunities to observe its behavior.

«These chance alignments are rare, occurring only about once every 1 million years for a given planet, so it was thought that a very long wait would be required before the planetary microlensing signal could be confirmed,» said David Bennett, the lead of the team that analyzed the Hubble data.

Unknowns: Some factors for life can't be confirmed one way or the other from the data available about extrasolar planets.

Mars Global Surveyor was a spacecraft that produced data about the Red Planet that will keep researchers busy for some time.

While Kepler has provided a massive amount of data, including 3,000 planet candidates, the next step is sorting through the findings to learn more about the host stars and the orbiting planets.

The data collected by Spitzer and other telescopes reveal the exoplanets» sizes and distances to their stars, while theoretical models predict additional information about the planets» atmospheres and surfaces.

Now, the treasure trove of data gathered by the spacecraft before its demise is helping scientists answer questions about the solar system's innermost planet in unprecedented detail.

POLENET data is enabling new studies of the inner earth, tectonic plates, the earth's magnetic field, climate and weather, and the solar wind, and will lead to as yet unimagined discoveries about the critical polar regions of our planet.

We will have information about the chemical compositions of many of these planets and we will be searching the data for biosignatures, or evidence of life.

And as a nifty bonus, the telescope will be able to spot distant exoplanets in the heart of the Milky Way, and its second instrument will be able to gather data about their atmospheres, which can tell scientists whether a planet is more like Neptune or Jupiter, for instance.

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Abstract: About one - third of the ~ 1200 transiting planet candidates detected in the first four months of \ ik data are members of multiple candidate systems.

Data from the new probes could help answer questions about how Jupiter works today — and how the planet first came together 4.6 billion years ago.

The planet is in a habitable zone, but based on the data we have now, talking about life there is speculation.»

But it brought back revolutionary data about the dwarf planet, data that never could have been obtained from Earth.

The distribution of observed period ratios sh... ▽ More About one - third of the ~ 1200 transiting planet candidates detected in the first four months of \ ik data are members of multiple candidate systems.