Sentences with phrase «habitability index»

Interestingly enough, they apply their metrics to the provocative Gliese 581 system, finding that both GJ 581c and GJ 581d show an Earth Similarity Index comparable to that of Mars, and a Planetary Habitability Index somewhere between that of Europa and Enceladus.

The Planetary Habitability Index is based on «the presence of a stable substrate, available energy, appropriate chemistry, and the potential for holding a liquid solvent,» as the paper's abstract notes.

This isn't the first habitability index to be devised.

If this is the first serious paper to decouple a habitability index from an Earth - like index, I predict that it will go down in history as one of the first steps of twenty first century science back towards the supremacy of the Copernican Principle.

Secondly: «The Planetary Habitability Index is based -LRB-...) appropriate chemistry, and the potential for holding a liquid solvent,» as the paper's abstract notes.

What's more, the habitability index does not account for a planet's atmosphere, which could turn what would otherwise be a hospitable world into a hothouse like Venus.

This «habitability index» is based on estimates of a planet's average temperature and size.

In November a team led by Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze - Makuch devised the Planetary Habitability Index, or PHI, a scoring system for distant worlds that measures their suitability for any kind of life, not merely life as we know it.

Not exact matches

Prof. Fairén and colleagues have used the BCI index to assess the habitability of 637 known exoplanets for which they had access to all the necessary parameters.