Sentences with phrase «decade space studies»

Satellite Observations to Benefit Science and Society: Recommended Missions for the Next Decade Space Studies Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (2008, 40 pp.; ISBN 0 -309-10903-5; available from NAP).

Not exact matches

NASA has wanted to study this region of space for decades, but each time it had the chance it opted out.

Oceanic data is valuable, but for decades the only way to study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a government research vessel that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to operate — on top of its initial price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Eagerly anticipated missions in the coming decade include attempts to bring back lunar samples, a joint CAS — ESA project to study space weather and ground - breaking missions to probe dark matter and black holes.

While space agencies are planning to send more orbiters to study Jupiter and its moons in the next decade, probes remain impractical because the gas planet has no solid surface to land on.

This wasn't just a bad year, James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies told the Senate committee, or even the start of a bad decade.

Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to a draft analysis of temperature data by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

But the same study shows that the iconic species» living space is becoming more fragmented by roads, and that the panda still has less habitat today than three decades ago, when it was first listed as endangered.

Scientists have been studying how visual space is mapped in the cerebral cortex for many decades under the assumption that the map is equal for lights and darks.

New measurements by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies indicate that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since 1880, and that the past decade or so has seen some of the warmest years in the last 132 years.One way to illustrate changes in global atmospheric temperatures is by looking at how far temperatures stray from «normal», or a baseline.

Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to a draft analysis of temperature data by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

They have been studied in laboratories for decades and are believed to exist in cold reaches of deep space.

«We can make these features in a computer, but we couldn't make them happen in a lab,» said Aurnou, a UCLA professor of earth, planetary and space sciences, who has spent the past decade studying computer models of swirling winds.

«This is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades,» NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies Director Gavin Schmidt said in a statement.

According to a new study, the Gaia space observatory could help that figure grow by a factor of ten by the end of the decade, reaching 70,000 planets after 10 years.

He was an advocate for human settlement of Mars, worked with NASA on every space expedition over several decades, and edited Icarus, the scientific journal of solar system studies.

With roots in Canada, after 20 years of traveling and studying with respected teachers and nearly a decade in the role of teacher, my home is in Venice, CA where I lead classes at Love Yoga Space.

Luhring Augustine is pleased to announce Painting in Space, a major summer group exhibition to support the Next Decade Campaign of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard).

Photos of disturbing activities after dark from a riskier decade, by Peter Hujar, continued an extended run, while Demetrius Oliver combined the space of a study hall with an episode of another male fixation, Star Trek.

This summer, CCS Bard and Luhring Augustine Gallery present Painting in Space, a major summer group exhibition to support the Next Decade Campaign of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard).

Katz has made these paintings for the past four decades, and each work is a study in the subtlety of illumination and the quietude of spaces depicted through shadows and silhouettes.

«Natural droughts like the 1930s Dust Bowl and the current drought in the Southwest have historically lasted maybe a decade or a little less,» said Ben Cook, climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York City, and lead author of the study.

And yet, as James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, observes, «the five - year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.»

«Natural droughts like the 1930s Dust Bowl and the current drought in the Southwest have historically lasted maybe a decade or a little less,» said Ben Cook, climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York City, and lead author of the paper, in a statement.

A month after Sammon sent his memo, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies released data confirming that 2009 was the second warmest year on record and marked the end of the warmest decade on record.

Concerning space weather, future studies should focus on analysis of the long - lasting and very deep solar cycle minimum and related very low level of geomagnetic activity in order to estimate its influence on long - term trends in the ionosphere, particularly on future trends, as we can expect weak solar cycles in the coming decades.

«This is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades,» said Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

The study, led by Kostas Tsigaridis, an associate research scientist at Columbia University and at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Maria Kanakidou, professor at the University of Crete, Greece, brought together 71 scientists from 49 institutions, 31 different global models of various degrees of complexity, and observational data from more than 1000 stations around the globe acquired over the past few decades.

Those in the know like erudite James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, observe, «the five - year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.»

Lead author James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, concludes: «If global emissions of carbon dioxide continue to rise at the rate of the past decade, this research shows that there will be disastrous effects, including increasingly rapid sea level rise, increased frequency of droughts and floods, and increased stress on wildlife and plants due to rapidly shifting climate zones.»

James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been arguing for such a strategy for over a decade.

Beginning with the most variable component of solar output spectrum, EUV has only in the last few decades been studied in detail, and is now one of the areas where real dollars are spent in space exploration.

In a recent op - ed in the Washington Post, James Hansen at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York blamed climate change for excessive drought, based on six decades of measurements, not computer models: «Our analysis shows that it is no longer enough to say that global warming will increase the likelihood of extreme weather and to repeat the caveat that no individual weather event can be directly linked to climate change.

As Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, put it in a post on the Real Climate blog: «The «selling point» of the paper is that with the updates to data and corrections, the trend over the recent decade or so is now significantly positive.

One of the most venerated scientists of our time, James Hansen is the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a position he's held for three decades.

The addition of rail into King of Prussia could add an estimated $ 540 million to $ 946 million to the assessed value of existing real estate in that section of Upper Merion over two decades and encourage developers to construct upwards of 8 million square feet of new space valued at $ 840 million, according to a study of the proposed project.