Sentences with phrase «earth observations team»

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The team used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope along with observations from telescopes on Earth, including ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile and others in Morocco, Hawaii, Spain, and South Africa.

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.

Professor Tingay said the research team was able to look back through all of the MWA's observations from November, December and early January, when «Oumuamua was between 95 million and 590 million kilometres from Earth.

In 1999, he led the team that made the first observation of a transiting exoplanet — one that passes directly between its parent star and Earth.

Some researchers have proposed that these lava floods caused global extinctions on Earth and that they affect climate change, says planetary geologist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, head of the Io observation team.

The key observation from the new research is that the small dip in the HAT - P - 7 b light curve when the planet passes behind its star «is roughly equivalent to the signal of an Earth - size planet when it passes in front of its parent star,» says Paul Kalas, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, who is not part of the Kepler team.

He says that one of the more fascinating observations that RBSPICE has provided his team involves the injections of ions and electrons from the Earth's geomagnetic tail into the ring current, which is the large electrical current that surrounds the Earth.

While there are many debates in regards to how the Earth's internal evolution is driven, the model created by the team seemed to find an answer that better fits available observations and underlying physics.

Using JAMSTEC's supercomputer, the Earth Simulator, the research team recreated cold wave forecasts for two cases: 1) when there is more frequent observation and more data available than usual (as in 2015) and 2) a «normal» year with less data collection from land - based stations and no additional research resources available.

This discovery, and other observations made by the Penn State team, provide insight into the complexity of weather and atmospheric composition on exoplanets, and may someday be useful for gauging the habitability of Earth - size planets.

The team's observations — published online today in Astronomy & Astrophysics — pin down 51 Pegasi b's mass (half that of Jupiter's) and the inclination of its orbit (9 ° with respect to Earth) more accurately than ever before.

Volker Liebig, the director of ESA's Earth observation programs, notified the FLEX team of the decision on 18 September, along with team members from CarbonSat, the other mission up for consideration in the Earth Explorer 8 competition.

The team made observations at many different wavelengths, optimised for different features and cloud layers in Jupiter's atmosphere, to create the first global spectral maps of Jupiter taken from Earth.

«These environmental and animal observations are noisy data, so whatever we find, we have to take with a grain of salt,» said Erdem Karaköylü, a Goddard Earth science data analyst and oceanographer who joined the team during its expansion.

The intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations asked Roger Sayre, an ecologist at the US Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, to lead a team to categorize terrestrial ecosystems.

The team measured glacier area change from 1986 to 2014 using satellite images from Landsat, the U.S. Geological Survey's and NASA's Earth observation programme.

By monitoring a small, nearby star for 11 years with one of the 10 - meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii and combining the data with 4.3 years of similar observations published by another team, Vogt and his co-authors found two orbiting planets, with respective masses of at least 3.1 times and seven times the mass of Earth.

«There's so much that we can learn from close - up spacecraft observations that we'll never learn from Earth, as the Pluto flyby demonstrated so spectacularly,» said New Horizons science team member John Spencer, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colo. «The detailed images and other data that New Horizons could obtain from a KBO flyby will revolutionize our understanding of the Kuiper Belt and KBOs.»

The observations by Dr. Anglada - Escudé's team have shown that both of the newly discovered planets are «Super-Earths,» which are worlds whose masses can be up to 10 times that of the Earth.

«This campaign is a team effort that involves more than a dozen observatories, universities and labs around the globe so we can collectively learn the strengths and limitations of our near - Earth object observation capabilities,» he said.

Planets «b, c, and d» - On December 14, 2009, a team of astronomers (Steven S. Vogt; Robert A. Wittenmyer, R. Paul Butler, Simon O'Toole, Gregory W. Henry, Eugenio J. Rivera, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory Laughlin, C. G. Tinney, Hugh R. A. Jones, Jeremy Bailey, Brad D. Carter, and Konstantin Batygin) announced the discovery of one innermost orbiting super-Earth and two outer - orbiting, Neptune - class planets (with at least 5.1, 18.2, and 24.0 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days, based on radial - velocity observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 20team of astronomers (Steven S. Vogt; Robert A. Wittenmyer, R. Paul Butler, Simon O'Toole, Gregory W. Henry, Eugenio J. Rivera, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory Laughlin, C. G. Tinney, Hugh R. A. Jones, Jeremy Bailey, Brad D. Carter, and Konstantin Batygin) announced the discovery of one innermost orbiting super-Earth and two outer - orbiting, Neptune - class planets (with at least 5.1, 18.2, and 24.0 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days, based on radial - velocity observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 20Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 2009).

On May 3, 2007, team of astronomers (including Jean - Luc Margot; Stan Peale; Igor V. Holin; Raymond F. Jurgens; and Martin A. Slade) announced new evidence that Mercury has a partially molten core using new observations of fluctuations in Mercury's spin obtained with radar signals bounced off the planet from Earth (with the 305 - meter Arecibo, the 34 - meter Goldstone, and the 100 - meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescopes).

«Interest in earth observation — and in particular, the value to what we do in development internationally — has never been higher,» said Jenny Frankel - Reed, adaptation team lead at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

As others have noted, the IPCC Team has gone absolutely feral about Salby's research and the most recent paper by Dr Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama (On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance), for one simple reason: both are based on empirical, undoctored satellite observations, which, depending on the measure required, now extend into the past by up to 32 years, i.e. long enough to begin evaluating real climate trends; whereas much of the Team's science in AR4 (2007) is based on primitive climate models generated from primitive and potentially unreliable land measurements and proxies, which have been «filtered» to achieve certain artificial realities (There are other more scathing descriptions of this process I won't use).

The team used radar observations captured by the European Earth Remote Sensing (ERS - 1 and -2) satellites to measure just how far the grounding line - the point where the glacier meets the land - had retreated.

WMO workshop participants included high - level representatives of operational and research and development space agencies, the Committee on Earth Observations Satellites (CEOS), Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the WMO Space Programme, the WMO Open Programme Area Group / Integrated Observing System (OPAG / IOS), and the Expert Team on Evolution of the Global Observing System (ET - EGOS).

The team used newly available NASA satellite observations of rainfall and vegetation, and a computer model that predicts atmospheric wind flow patterns, to explore the impact of the Earth's tropical forests.